Bloodtide (adobe)

Burgess Melvin (Autor)

Media-Kombination

2001
E-Teenage Books
978-0-14-188010-5 (ISBN)

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A story set in the future as two rival gangs, the Volsons and the Connors, struggle to control London. Val Volson dreams of uniting the two factions by giving his 14-year-old daughter, Signy, as a bride to the rival ganglord, Connor. A shocking betrayal almost wipes out the Volsons - only Signy and her twin brother, Siggy, survive.

Set in the future as two rival gangs, the Volsons and the Connors, struggle to control London. The city is almost cut off from the rest of the country and surrounded by the Halfman Lands - a desolate area populated by creatures, Halfmen, the results of genetic experiments to create living killing machines. Val Volson dreams of uniting the two factions by giving his 14-year-old daughter, Signy, as a bride to the rival ganglord, Connor. A shocking betrayal almost wipes out the Volsons - only Signy and her twin brother, Siggy, survive. The fate of both gangs, and of London, is in their hands, but both must pay a terrible price for power.

Melvin Burgess was born in London in 1954 and was brought up in Sussex and Surrey. Described by The Times as 'a new and powerful talent', he is now regarded as one of the best writers of contemporary children's and teenage literature.Junk won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal. It was also shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. His recent novel, Bloodtide, won the Lancashire Children's Book Award.Melvin Burgess writes full time and lives in Manchester.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-14-188010-4 / 0141880104
ISBN-13	978-0-14-188010-5 / 9780141880105
Zustand	Neuware