Breaktime (The Dance Sequence #1)
Aidan Chambers
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
3.50
· 8 ratings · 183 pages · Published: 13 Aug 1992
Literature is crap. Fiction is, anyway. A pretense. Ersatz. . . . When you read a story you are pretending a lie. —Morgan
What begins as a game for Ditto—the refutation of his friend Morgan’s Charges Against Literature—quickly escalates into a multilevel challenge. After Ditto’s father suffers a heart attack in the middle of one of their fights, Ditto decides he has to get away for a few days to sort out his life. His chronicle of his experiences becomes his rebuttal to Morgan’s Charges. But is this thought-provoking examination of people and ideas all fact . . . or fiction? Aidan Chambers leaves it up to the reader to decide in this novel that Publishers Weekly calls “excruciatingly funny as well as touching.”
Includes a new afterword from the author!
Praise for Aidan Chambers
Michael L. Printz Award winner
Carnegie Medal winner
Hans Christian Andersen Award winner
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The 'The Dance Sequence' series
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