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One boy in each generation of the Moreaux family is given the ability to become invisible. When Paul Moreaux inherits the gift - or the curse - he is soon seeing things it is better not to see. After a lifelong struggle with the gift of the fade he must save his nephew from it.
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This exciting and thought-provoking thriller by the well-established American writer (author of The Chocolate War and many other titles) is guaranteed to grip the attention of imaginative teenagers as fascinated by fantasies of brutality and violence as by ideas about personal morality and self control. The Fade begins quietly enough in a depression-hit French-Canadian town when13-year-old Paul Moreaux discovers he has inherited from his uncle the "gift" of fading into invisibility. Before you know it, Paul moves beyond being a voyeur of dubious sexual antics to finding himself a guilt- ridden murderer. Worse follows when the hereditary gene manifests itself in his schizophrenic teenage nephew who lays waste to the town he lives in and sets out to murder those closest to him. Reminiscent of Mary Shelley's story about Frankenstein and his poor benighted monster, Cormier's story is at once terrifyingly exciting and sadly sobering, exploring, as it does man's capacity for inhumanity to man. --by Tamsin Palmer
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Robert Cormier has been called the single most important writer in the whole history of young adult literature. In 1991, he received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring his lifetime contribution to writing for teens."
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0575044020
- ISBN 13 9780575044029
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Published in Gt Britain 1988. Good condition book and DJ not price clipped. 246 pages good and clean with clear print. 1/4" tear corner top of spine on DJ. 'In the summer of 1938 a mysterious power transforms the life of teenager Paul Moreaux: he inherits the ability to fade, to become invisible. Frightened yet thrilled, Paul is an eager witness as her begins to explore the possibilities of his strange gift. But soon he is seeing things it is better not to see and learning things it is better no to know- - is the fade really a gift, or is it a curse?. Seller Inventory # 010200
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