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Little Star
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Little Star
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Ajvide Lindqvist
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:440 | Dimensions(mm): Height 233,Width 154 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Horror and ghost stories |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781921758577
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Classifications | Dewey:839.738 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Text Publishing
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Imprint |
The Text Publishing Company
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Publication Date |
3 October 2011 |
Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
Lennart Cederstrom, embittered ex-pop singer, is foraging for mushrooms when he finds a baby left for dead in a plastic bag. He revives her and is utterly astonished by the sound of her crying: the child's voice is a clear, haunting, perfectly pitched note. Lennart decides the girl will be his project. Raised in isolation, untainted by the dross and banality of the everyday, she will become the vehicle for a pure, exquisite music. He installs the baby in the basement and threatens to kill his downtrodden wife if she breathes a word. But their delinquent son Jerry is a harder case and his ideas for the infant prodigy, whom he names Theres, involve talent shows, celebrity and enormous success. Meanwhile, the child is growing up and developing a few ideas of her own. Only hers involve a hammer. A hammer, and a very strong taste for violence and a strange ambition to appear on Swedish Idol. Imagine what will happen when she finds a friend who shares her interests.
Author Biography
John Ajvide Lindqvist is the author of Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead.
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