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Borderliners

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"Gripping and disturbing . . . H eg's evocation of the way a child perceives the world is alarmingly vivid."-USA Today

Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. The children soon suspect that they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experiment, and that their only hope of escape is to break through a dangerous threshold of time and space. Peter H eg's "brilliant" and dystopian Borderliners is a "uniquely philosophical thriller" (Boston Sunday Globe) and a haunting story of childhood travail and hope.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312427115
  • ISBN-10: 0312427115
  • Publisher: Picador USA
  • Publish Date: October 2007
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
  • Page Count: 288

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