Broken: A Novel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061561045 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 305 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Bob, whose five daughters go to school with Skunk, is one-dimensionally horrible and has no qualms about bullying kids or teachers as he protects his daughters. The novel is nearly plotless and overflows with generalized nastiness, and the grim proceedings, while initially discomforting, don't do anything except pile on and become banal. From Publishers Weekly English writer Clay's disjointed debut traces the story of Skunk Cunningham, an 11-year-old girl living with her father, brother and au pair. (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . All rights reserved. Skunk and crew, meanwhile, spend their days in school steering clear of the Oswald girls, who are as psycho as their father. Between bouts of violence, things in the British suburb are quiet, and Rick becomes a virtual prisoner in his home, only to later emerge as a broken and violent beast. One day, Skunk watches as local thug Bob Oswald beats teenager
Very enjoyable in audiobook format dettlja I got this book on audio cd from my library and listen to it on my commute. It's been delightful and laugh out loud funny at some parts. I'm almost at the end and it's so good I go out to the car to listen on my lunch.. "Excellent book not for the feint of heart" according to A. Whitney. I was so engrossed by this book that I stayed up until Excellent book not for the feint of heart I was so engrossed by this book that I stayed up until 3am to finish it and had to drag myself to work that morning. It is a well-written, but trying story of a small cul-de-sac of families who are all damaged by a troubled family and its fetid tentacles. No one escapes this book unscathed, and some don't escape at all. "Broken" had an interesting dichotomy for me as I couldn't put it down, but the story weighed heavy on my heart. I stayed up late the last night be. am to finish it and had to drag myself to work that morning. It is a well-written, but trying story of a small cul-de-sac of families who are all damaged by a troubled family and its fetid tentacles. No one escapes this book unscathed, and some don't escape at all. "Broken" had an interesting dichotomy for me as I couldn't put it down, but the story weighed heavy on my heart. I stayed up late the last night be. dark bleak character study A Customer In Southampton eleven year old Skunk Cunningham lives with her father, brother and au pair. Skunk watches bully Bob Oswald batter teenager Rick Buckley; a few minutes after beating Rick up badly, Bob reports to the cops that the nineteen years old Buckley raped his thirteen year old daughter Susan. No one messes with one of Oswald's five daughters as the patriarch is not concerned with the truth; in this case the police Dr. Mortimer affirms Susan is a virgin. Charg
Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buckley had been a normal geeky teenager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters, charging furiously down the sidewalk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp, right there in the Buckleys' driveway, and life on Drummond Square was never the same again.Inspired by Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a suburban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty.