Bibliograph

Home after dark, a novel, David Small

Type

Label

Home after dark, a novel, David Small

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Home after dark

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Responsibility statement

David Small

Sub title

a novel

Summary

A savage portrayal of male adolescence gone awry, like no other work of recent fiction or film. Wildly kaleidoscopic and furiously cinematic, Home After Dark is a literary tour-de-force that renders the brutality of adolescence in the so-called nostalgic 1950s, evoking classics such as The Lord of the Flies. Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to California in search of a dream. Forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who bully Russell for being "queer". Rescued from his booze-swilling father by Wen and Jian Mah, a Chinese immigrant couple who long for a child, Russell betrays them by running away with their restaurant's proceeds

Target audience

adolescent

Classification