Beneath that starry place

by Terry Jordan

Book Overview

Maybe it's winter now, and you're a boy, too. After you've flung yourself over the cliff of day into sleep, you're suddenly awake again and you rise in a silver and moonstruck night on the edge of a small town, the snowy outskirts a vast canvas to be filled with the darks and lights of the shadowy world outside your bedroom window. You sense your mother in the room, and look around once to see. You are used to this, she comes in often to check on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0006385877
• ISBN13: 9780006385875
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and engaging reading from first page to last

Nathan Mann is the youngest of a family of professional hustlers and yearning dreamers. His memories of his own childhood and the family's history are a jumbled, confusing, and unreliable. As Nathan pieces together the histories of his parents and grandparents (with the help of a series of his grandmother's watercolors), he comes to realize the power and influence of that grandfather Eamon has had the lives of Nathan and the rest of the family. Terry Jordan is a master storyteller with a gift for lyric narrative and the creation of truly memorable and identifiable characters. Beneath That Starry Place is entertaining and engaging reading from first page to last.