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Fabio Accurso Fabio Accurso i(A104884 works by)
Gender: Male
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2 7 y separately published work icon Monster Man Glyn Parry , Milan : Arnoldo Mondadori , 1997 Z455658 1994 single work novel young adult

'Melanie Spence was just another sixteen-year-old until the sunny afternoon she was kidnapped. Suddenly her everyday problems - an oversexed boyfriend, an irritating mother, a dad who left home - paled in comparison to the sick fantasyland her kidnapper called reality.

'Samuel Levine was about forty, trapped in his own demented netherworld of domineering monsters, dead sisters, and an obsessive desire for a family. Melanie and a little four-year-old girl were his prisoners on a terrifying odyssey of danger and destruction. There was no way he would let them go...not alive, anyway.

'Though bound and gagged, Melanie refused to give up hope. She still had her brains, so why be a victim when she could be a survivor?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
5 41 y separately published work icon Sleeping Dogs Sonya Hartnett , ( trans. Fabio Accurso with title Casa Willow ) Milan : Arnoldo Mondadori , 1996 Z238800 1995 single work novel young adult (taught in 8 units) The misanthropic, sadistic father of five children, ages 12 to 25, Griffin Willow runs a trailer park on his dilapidated farm in rural Australia. Isolated from all outside influences, even the neighboring small town, the Willow family has created its own oppressive, sheltered, and decaying world. Despite abuse from their father and a silent, withdrawn mother, all five children live at home and help run the trailer park. Twenty-three-year-old Michelle and her younger brother Jordan have found solace in an incestuous relationship, which they carefully conceal from their parents. When Bow Fox, an itinerant artist, comes to stay at the park, their 15-year-old brother, Oliver, accidently reveals their secret. So begins an agonizing, irreversible progression of violence and betrayal. (Source: Trove)
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