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I'll let you go : a novel

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Description

xiv, 549 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Twelve-year-old Toulouse "Tull" Trotter lives on his grandfather's vast Bel-Air parkland estate with his mother, the beautiful, drug-addicted Katrina, a landscape artist who specializes in topiary labyrinths. He spends most of his time with his young cousins Lucy, "the girl detective," and Edward, a prodigy undaunted by the disfiguring effects of Apert Syndrome. One day, an impulsive revelation from Lucy sets in motion a chain of events that changes Tull - and the Trotter family - forever.
Though the story unfolds in contemporary Los Angeles, the reader hears echoes of Proust and 1,001 Nights as Toulouse seeks his lost father, a woman finds her lost love, and a family of unimaginable wealth learns that its fate is tied to those of the orphan Amaryllis (who officially aspires to be a saint) and her protector, a courtly giant of a homeless schizophrenic - both of them on the run from the law.
Along a path shaded by murder and mysticism, we meet such unforgettable characters as Fitzsimmons, a deranged former social worker; the enterprising Monasterio family of servants (Candelaria, Epitacio, and Eulogio); "Someone-Help-Me," a streetwise devil; and Pullman, a seemingly ageless Great Dane."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre/Form

Satire.

ISBN

0375500022 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001026729

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries