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Plum & jaggers
- Title
- Plum & jaggers / Susan Richards Shreve.
- Author
- Shreve, Susan.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.H74 P58 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 228 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Sam McWilliams is the only member of the comedy troupe Plum & Jaggers who remembers the afternoon of June 11, when the first two cars of the Espresso from Milan to Rome exploded, killing everyone on board except a four-year-old French boy and a conductor.".
- "Haunted by the terrorist explosion that killed his parents and obsessively driven to protect his orphaned younger siblings - even if it means breaking the law - precocious, fiercely independent Sam discovers during a stint in a Washington, D.C., juvenile home that he has a gift as a writer of family comedy. So begins the dark, quirky Plum & Jaggers series of sketches about a family of children whose parents are never at home.
- The McWilliams family troupe rises from open-mike venues to small comedy clubs to a late-night television slot, creating a stir - and unwittingly exposing the family to new dangers that cost Sam his resilient wit and threaten his sanity."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Plum and jaggers
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- ISBN
- 0374234620 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99047619
- OCLC
- ocm42397969
- SCSB-3883386
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries