The Leopard Is Loose by Harrigan, Stephen

The Leopard Is Loose

The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard...
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Author: Stephen Harrigan
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Language: English
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The Leopard Is Loose by Harrigan, Stephen

The Leopard Is Loose

€42,57

The Leopard Is Loose

€42,57
Author: Stephen Harrigan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears

For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around him. He and his older brother Danny are fatherless, and their mother, Bethie, is still grieving for her fighter-pilot husband. Most of all, Grady senses it in his two uncles: young combat veterans determined to step into a fatherhood role for their nephews, even as they struggle with the psychological scars they carry from the war.

When news breaks that a leopard has escaped from the Oklahoma City Zoo, the playthings and imagined fears of Grady's childhood begin to give way to real-world terrors, most imminently the dangerous jungle cat itself. The Leopard Is Loose is a stunning encapsulation of America in the 1950s, and a moving portrait of a boy's struggle to find his place in the world.

Author: Stephen Harrigan
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.55h x 6.11w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780525655770


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2021 pg. 10
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2021
Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 31
Library Journal 02/04/2022 pg. 1

About the Author
STEPHEN HARRIGAN's previous novels include the New York Times best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, Remember Ben Clayton (which, among other awards, won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians for best historical novel), and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln. He has also written a number of nonfiction books, including the recent Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas, and a career-spanning collection of essays, The Eye of the Mammoth. He is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, as well as a screenwriter who has written many movies for television. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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