Alias: A Secret Life (PB), Peyton Roberts Laura

Автор: Metalious,Grace
Название: Peyton place
ISBN: 1860499295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781860499296
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: * a searing portrait of small-town hypocrisy written in the page-turning style that found PP a permanent place in publishing history * once a banned book, this novel spawned a TV series and a film

Автор: Peyton Marshall
Название: Goodhouse
ISBN: 0374535868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374535865
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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A bighearted dystopian novel about the corrosive effects of fear and the redemptive power of love.

With soaring literary prose and the tense pacing of a thriller, the first-time novelist Peyton Marshall imagines a grim and startling future. At the end of the twenty-first century-in a transformed America-the sons of convicted felons are tested for a set of genetic markers. Boys who test positive become compulsory wards of the state-removed from their homes and raised on "Goodhouse" campuses, where they learn to reform their darkest thoughts and impulses. Goodhouse is a savage place-part prison, part boarding school-and now a radical religious group, the Holy Redeemer's Church of Purity, is intent on destroying each campus and purifying every child with fire.
We see all this through the eyes of James, a transfer student who watched as the radicals set fire to his old Goodhouse and killed nearly everyone he'd ever known. In addition to adjusting to a new campus with new rules, James now has to contend with Bethany, a brilliant, medically fragile girl who wants to save him, and with her father, the school's sinister director of medical studies. Soon, however, James realizes that the biggest threat might already be there, inside the fortified walls of Goodhouse itself.
Partly based on the true story of the nineteenth-century Preston School of Industry, Goodhouse explores questions of identity and free will-and what it means to test the limits of human endurance.