I aspired to be like him and I was glad to be a dead ringer. [...] I was thirteen before I realized that Poppy was hated by most of the people unfortunate enough to have had to contend with him. [...] I { 14 } spat the dummy knew that she could say the wrong thing at any moment and open the lid that I had been holding on to from the inside, but I wanted to hear about Poppy. [...] I used to get a calendar from the bakery down the street and, gouging an X into each numbered square with a ballpoint pen, I counted down the days to every break in the school year. [...] I had to blow it out the window so as to not taint the aroma of her tobacco.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781927380291 9781897535318
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.M322574
- LCCN Item number
- S63 2010eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (269 p.)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233017 (OCoLC)858603945 (CaOOCEL)446420
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
