Perfect: A Novel
by:
Rachel Joyce (author)
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain...
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In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as their golden futures. Then Byron's mother, late for the school run, makes a devastating mistake. Byron's perfect world is shattered. Were those two extra seconds to blame? Can what follows ever be set right?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780812993301 (0812993306)
ASIN: 0812993306
Publish date: 2014-01-07
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Fiction
This was depressing, sad and in the same time it was happy and beautiful. I know it doesn't make sense. It was sad because it's a story about bad timing, and collections of unfortunate events that affect a number of people in different ways. It also about lies, facades and mental illness. So expect...
I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.What happens when the powers that be decide to add two seconds to time in the summer of 1972? How does that decision affect everyday people? Two boys, Byron and James, have to live with the events, and the consequenc...
I received a draft copy of this book from NetGalley This book is simple in scope, but is wondrous in its meaning making and has great potential to be one of the best books of 2014. The book centers around two seconds. Two seconds, just two seconds, added to time, and two boys caught in the middl...
Perfect is the second really heavy book that I have read so far this year. I really had to sit on this one for a bit before writing this review. I often gauge how much I liked a book by how I felt at the end. When I read the last page of this book, I really felt kind of down with a smidgen of hop...
Find this review and much more at Read, Run, Ramble Thank you Random House Publishing Group via Netgalley for providing me with an early copy of this book! When I found this book in the Netgalley catalog, I thought it sounded interesting and I had heard really good things about Joyce’s debut nove...