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Chargement... Thalidomide Kidpar Kate Rigby
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Fate dealt to Daryl from the bottom of the deck. During pregnancy, his mother took a common prescription drug that doomed him to a life without arms. But streetwise Daryl's a fighter - self-styled Thalidomide Kid superhero at heart - and he's sworn to play his rogue cards against all the odds. Kate Rigby's gritty novel follows him through a bittersweet journey of fear and determination, failure and conquest, blind prejudice . and forbidden love. For the first time in a work of fiction, Rigby lifts a corner of the veil to reveal the cruel and uncomfortable face of the thalidomide horror that crippled a generation. Thalidomide produced suicides and heroes. Daryl is a special case. You'll never forget him. Kate Rigby bravely presents grim reality in a story that pitches full-bodied spirit against seemingly insurmountable physical inadequacy. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The running commentary in his head went something like this: And it's Thalidomide Kid from Planet Thalidomide where all the crooked kids live. Thalidomide Kid, coming up to the side shows at the Mop Fair where you aim hoops over things in the middle to see if you can win them, and he's stopping at this stall, Thalidomide Kid, looking at all the bright things in the middle and he's going to get a free go, the man in the middle is giving him a free go, and Thalidomide Kid's hoops land on the sticky brown earth in the moat bit, miles from the prizes which are like castles. And Thalidomide Kid's quoits never land where he wants them to land at school either. And it's Thalidomide Kid who should have a side show all of his own, like at the circus where you see dwarves making a king's ransom. See this, Thalidomide Kid - your momma took something that shrivelled up your arms -
Rigby, whose first novel Fall Of The Flamingo Circus on the punk generation, has now produced this, a possibly much more mature work. She gives it her customary attention to "fine details", summoning up the period in which she sets her books with reference to its products, fads, hit records, while keeping the plot moving along tautly, and the dialogue "real". (In fact, Thalidomide Kid is probably the best plotted of all her books to date). (