now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant (*My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting,* and Milk) It was an accident. He didn't mean to kill the security guard with his skateboard—it was self-defense. But there's no one to back up his story. No one even knows he was at Paranoid Park.
Paranoid Park
✍ Scribed by Bismuth, Daniel;Nelson, Blake
- Publisher
- MyBookLibrary; Librairie générale française
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- Italian
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Series
- Le livre de poche. Jeunesse 1460
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Paris
- ISBN
- 2013227221
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✦ Synopsis
Il protagonista-narratore di questo intenso romanzo è uno studente di 16 anni con la passione dello skateboard. Paranoid Park è il luogo dove si ritrovano i migliori skaters di Portland, in gran parte ragazzi di strada. Durante una bravata (salire di nascosto su un treno in corsa) un poliziotto sta per vibrare un tremendo colpo di manganello a un ragazzo: il protagonista lo colpisce con lo skateboard e il poliziotto viene travolto dal treno e ucciso. E' stato un incidente, è stata legittima difesa, ma cosa è giusto fare? Il protagonista si tormenta, la sua vita va in frantumi, proprio mentre i genitori stanno affrontando un divorzio doloroso.
✦ Subjects
Fiction
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