The Thief of Broken Toys
When a father loses his son and his wife leaves him, he cannot tear himself away from the small fishing village where the boy's memories reside. They're all he has left. Thinking that his life is all but over, he takes to wandering the cliffs, carrying broken things that he always promised his...
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When a father loses his son and his wife leaves him, he cannot tear himself away from the small fishing village where the boy's memories reside. They're all he has left. Thinking that his life is all but over, he takes to wandering the cliffs, carrying broken things that he always promised his son he would fix, but never did. They're a sign of his failure, and they keep little Toby close. And then he meets the thief of broken toys, and everything begins to change.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780981297897 (0981297897)
ASIN: 0981297897
Publish date: 2010-05-15
Publisher: Chizine Publications
Pages no: 146
Edition language: English
As depressing as this was, I kept gravitating towards the book: the focus is on Ray, a man grieving the loss of his young son, and his relationship with the people in his small town, from friends, to the woman he flirts with at the bakery, to his estranged wife. For such a short work, it does a...
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