Smith - Hardcover

Garfield, Leon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374370826 ISBN 13: 9780374370824

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000

Synopsis

This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder. Smiths booty from the theft is an Important Document, no doubt worth quite a lot to somebody, which is proved by the pursuit of Smith by two very shady characters. Smith artfully dodges them and winds up in the odd company of a wealthy blind man, who takes Smith into his home and provides him with an education. But this new comfort is lost when Smith himself is suspected of the very murder he witnessed. Smith was a Boston Globe--Horn Book Honor Book, winner of the Phoenix Award, and a Carnegie Honor Book.

About this title

Review:

"Leon Garfield's vivid descriptions and dialog transported me almost bodily . . . Reissuing Leon Garfield's novels is a great gift." -- "Suzanne Fisher Staple"s

About the Author:

Leon Garfield (1921-96) was the author of numerous books for children and adults. Smith and Black Jack were his third and fourth books respectively, originally published in 1967 and 1968.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0374370826
• ISBN 13: 9780374370824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 195