Dodger # (UK)

PRAISE FOR TERRY PRATCHETT 'Pratchett is a master storyteller' A. S. Byatt, Guardian 'Satirical, historical, fantastical and irresistible' Daily Mail 'The best thing since Wodehouse' The Times 'A passion for language, wordplay and puns bursts from the pages' Daily Telegraph Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a beating, and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England. From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's Dodger. Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl -- not even if her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England. From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett combines high comedy with deep wisdom in this tale of an unexpected coming-of-age and one remarkable boy's rise in a complex and fascinating world. - Publisher. A Brand New Edition Of A Terry Pratchett Classic – Set In Victorian London, And Starring Cunning But Kind Dodger, As He Sets Off On A Whirlwind Adventure Through The City Streets The Sewer Is Dodger’s World . . . He Hunts Treasure There – Coins And Jewels Lost In The Dark And Dirty Drains. It’s A Good Life, If You Don’t Mind Getting Your Hands (and Arms And Feet And Face) Dirty. But One Night, Dodger Helps A Young Woman Flee Two Ruffians. Now, A Street Urchin Dressed As A Gentleman, He Must Discover The Secret Behind Her Escape. Along The Way He’ll Befriend Charles Dickens, Outwit Sweeny Todd And Reach The Giddy Heights Of Victorian Society. Dodger May Be Living In The Gutter, But He’s Heading For The Stars . . . "In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd"-- Provided by publisher Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn't. But when he rescues a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him.