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An edition of Billy and Girl (1996)

Billy and Girl

a novel

1st American ed.

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"Darkly comic and more than a little disturbing, Billy and Girl introduces a version of childhood trauma that is completely original and utterly unnerving. Abandoned years ago by their parents, Billy and Girl live alone somewhere in England.

Girl looks for their mother by going door-to-door and addressing every woman who answers as "Mom," and Billy fantasizes about a future in which he will be famous - preferably in the United States - as a movie star, a psychiatrist, a doctor to blondes with breast enlargements, or the author of Billy England's Book of Pain.

The siblings support and torture each other, forgetting what they need to forget, inventing worlds they hope will be better, but managing to prolong nightmares as they create alternate personalities in order to survive and conquer and punish."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Language
English
Pages
185

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Subjects
Teenage boys, Brothers and sisters, Fiction, Street children, Abused children, Abandoned children, Mother and child, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Siblings, fiction
Places
England

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Billy and Girl: a novel
1999, Dalkey Archive Press
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Billy and Girl
1996, Bloomsbury
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Billy and girl
1996, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Normal, IL
Series
British literature series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6062.E9255 B55 1999, PR6062.E9255B55 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
185 p. ;
Number of pages
185

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL386510M
Internet Archive
billygirlnovel0000levy
ISBN 10
1564782026
LCCN
98049257
OCLC/WorldCat
40542917
Library Thing
100778
Goodreads
458981

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