Shelter (1994)

by Jayne Anne Phillips

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Notes, 1997

Dreamy, evocative, suspenseful, striking. No children were ever like this, but that's not the point. It draws you in. But it's tedious at times.

marysargent | Apr 28, 2007 |

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Suojelus

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Shelter

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1994

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Lenore "Lenny" Swenson

Alma Swenson

Delia Campbell

Catherine "Cap" Briarley

Carmody

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Ja minä näin tulevan taivaasta alas enkelin,
jolla oli syvyyden avain ja suuret kahleet kädessään.
Ja hän otti kiinni lohikäärmeen, sen vanhan käärmeen,
joka on perkele ja saatana, ja sitoi hänet tuhanneksi vuodeksi
ja heitti hänet syvyyteen ja sulki ja lukitsi sen sinetillä hänen jälkeensä,
ettei hän enää kansoja villitsisi, siihen asti kuin ne tuhat vuotta ovat loppuun kuluneet;
sen jälkeen hänet pitää päästettämän irti vähäksi aikaa.

- Johanneksen ilmestys 200:1-3

Kauhea on joka enkeli.

- Rilke, Duinon elegiat (suom. Aila Meriluoto)

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Samille

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Taivaan palo vaihtui valkoisesta oljenvaalean kautta väkevään siniseen.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0395488907, Hardcover)

An incarnate evil, youthful innocence, and burgeoning adolescent sexuality meet in a gripping Southern Gothic tale set in a 1963 West Virginia summer camp as two young girls go to a swimming hole at midnight and encounter two ex-cons. BOMC. Tour.

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While camping in the Appalachians in West Virginia, four girl guides meet a group of hillbillies and what follows is a tale heavy with sex and menace, ending in violent drama. On the surface, a confrontation between evil and innocence, except that as the story progresses the girls turn out to be not so innocent. By the author of Machine Dreams.… (more)