Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragi
Origin of Life Prize
โ Scribed by Alan W. Schwartz
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-0875
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