Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Romaner

The award–winning debut novel from “a tragicomedienne par excellence . . . You will not want to miss this tender depiction of some very mean streets” (Montreal Review of Books).

Baby, all of thirteen years old, is lost in the gangly, coltish moment between childhood and the strange pulls and temptations of the adult world. Her mother is dead; her father, Jules, is scarcely more than a child himself and is always on the lookout for his next score. Baby knows that “chocolate milk” is Jules’ slang for heroin and sees a lot more of that in her house than the real thing. But she takes vivid delight in the scrappy bits of happiness and beauty that find their way to her, and moves through the threat of the streets as if she’s been choreographed in a dance.

Soon, though, a hazard emerges that is bigger than even her hard-won survival skills can handle. Alphonse, the local pimp, has his eye on her for his new girl—and what the johns don’t take he covets for himself. If Baby cannot learn to become her own salvation, his dark world threatens to claim her, body and soul.

Channeling the artlessly affecting voice of her thirteen-year-old heroine with extraordinary accuracy and power, Heather O’Neill’s debut novel blew readers away when it was first published. Now it’s sure to capture its next decade of readers as Baby picks her pathway along the edge of the abyss to arrive at a place of redemption, and of love.

Featuring a new introduction from the author

“A vivid portrait of life on skid row.” —People

© 2023 HarperCollins e-books (E-bog): 9780061856907

Release date

E-bog: 21. november 2023

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Pleasure Was Mine: A Novel Tommy Hays
  2. Cooler Heads Julian Tepper
  3. Hieroglyphics and Other Stories Anne Donovan
  4. The Sugar House Antonia White
  5. Night Swimming in the Jordan Yaara Lahav Gregory
  6. By Love Possessed: Stories Lorna Goodison
  7. I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters Rabih Alameddine
  8. The God of Nightmares: A Novel Paula Fox
  9. All the Living: A Novel C. E. Morgan
  10. On Bended Knees Martin Goodman
  11. The Lost Journals of Sacajewea: A Novel Debra Magpie Earling
  12. People in Glass Houses: A Novel Shirley Hazzard
  13. Brown Girl, Brownstones Paule Marshall
  14. The Real Minerva: A Novel Mary Sharratt
  15. The Clarinet Polka: A Novel Keith Maillard
  16. House Lights: A Novel Leah Hager Cohen
  17. Eve's Apple: A Novel Jonathan Rosen
  18. Night at the Fiestas: Stories Kirstin Valdez Quade
  19. American Son: A Novel Brian Ascalon Roley
  20. Mending the Moon Susan Palwick
  21. The Lady from Tel Aviv Raba'I Al-Madhoun
  22. About Us Reda Gaudiamo
  23. Blue Hour: A Fearless and Timely Debut - One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading Selections Tiffany Clarke Harrison
  24. If You Leave Me: A Novel Crystal Hana Kim
  25. The Driest Season: A Novel Meghan Kenny
  26. The Love-Artist: A Novel Jane Alison
  27. A Children's Bible: A Novel Lydia Millet
  28. Sparta: A Novel Roxana Robinson
  29. The Air We Breathe: A Novel Andrea Barrett
  30. With the Animals Noelle Revaz
  31. Limbo: A Novel Melania G. Mazzucco
  32. The Custom Of The Country Edith Wharton
  33. In the Beginning Was the Sea Tomás González
  34. The Photographer Meike Ziervogel
  35. An American Type: A Novel Henry Roth
  36. Asphyxia Violette Leduc
  37. Leaving: A Novel Richard Dry
  38. Dogs at the Perimeter: A Novel Madeleine Thien
  39. This Plague of Souls Mike McCormack
  40. The Gallery of Lost Species: A Novel Nina Berkhout
  41. Sand-Catcher Omar Khalifah
  42. Good Family: A Novel Terry Gamble

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet