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My Grandfather Jack the Ripper (Adone, 2000)
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My Grandfather Jack the Ripper (Adone, 2000)
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Tuesday, 27 June 2000 - 09:07 pm |        | From barnesandnoble.com:
My Grandfather Jack the Ripper
Claudio Adone
This book will be available in September, place your advance order now and we will ship it when it arrives!
Format: Hardcover, 192pp.
ISBN: 1928746160
Publisher: Herodias
Pub. Date: September 2000
I believe Claudio has been on the site before, though I haven't seen him recently. Does anyone remember if this was a fiction or non-fiction? |
Author: Tom Wescott
Tuesday, 06 March 2001 - 04:45 am | | Whatever happened to this book? I've never heard of it before. Has anyone read it? What's it about?
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott |
Author: Wolf Vanderlinden
Tuesday, 06 March 2001 - 10:53 am | | the book has been published Tom, and appears to be written for children or young adults in mind. Not my cup of tea.
Wolf. |
Author: Christopher T George
Tuesday, 06 March 2001 - 11:13 am | | Hi, Tom, Wolf, et al.:
Here's the publisher's description of the book as given on Amazon. Sounds okay to me if you are looking for young adult Ripper fiction mixing clairvoyance and time travel. A sort of Harry Potter meets Jack the Ripper maybe? No doubt those of us who have to have "everything Ripper" will want to have a copy. I am not sure what the Claudio Apone/Claudio Adone double billing means. Does the Italian writer Claudio Apone happen to have a translator named Claudio Adone?!!!
Chris
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My Grandfather Jack the Ripper
by Claudio Apone, Claudio Adone
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover - 208 pages 1 Ed edition (December 15, 2000)
Herodias; ISBN: 1928746160 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 7.24 x 5.22
Book Description
HERODIAS is pleased to introduce Andy Dobson, the loafing, lying, and thoroughly lovable clairvoyant thirteen year old from London's East End. As Andy and his good friend, Lucy Catlett, solve one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries, they are sure to make their way into the hearts of countless teens and adult readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Italian sensation Claudio Apone has created a kind of young adult fiction that is intelligent, provocative, frighteningly violent, totally real, and, by turns, delightfully funny.
Thirteen-year-old Andy is looked-after attractive, but out-to-lunch mum, Emma, the innkeeper of the Jack-in-the-Box, the lowly East End boarding house that has been in the Dobson family for generations--all the way back to the time of Jack the Ripper, who murdered his last victim in Room 4, just upstairs from Andy's bedroom. The dusty, dilapidated, and totally creepy boarding house is now occupied by an assortment of misfits and crazies: Miss Carla Cooper, a beautiful Jamaican who says she is a hostess for British Airways; Hugo Drabber, an eccentric, over-fed gentleman whose hobby is building and flying kites; and Andy's Granddad, Bob, a flaming alcoholic who is an unending source of stories about Andy's family and the lore of the Jack-in-the-Box.
Andy and Lucy befriend a newly-arrived boarder, Massimo, a chain-smoking, music-loving Italian graduate student who has come to London in hopes of finding new clues to Jack the Ripper's unsolved crimes. As this astonishing and bloodcurdling adventure unfolds, Massimo helps Andy enhance his clairvoyant gift to travel back in time to solve the grisly murder of Mary Kelly, the final victim of Jack the Ripper--who may have been Andy's great-great-Grandfather! But upon his return to the present, Andy is faced with another, more personally devastating crime. We are kept on the edge of our seats as the story takes some surprising and frightening turns before well-being is finally restored to the Dobson household.
My Grandfather Jack the Ripper has created a stir in Italy, where Claudio Apone has generated a cult following among teens. Young readers will be fascinated with its historical subject, and intrigued by its open treatment of a variety of adult themes that are sure to stimulate much discussion between parent and child, between friends, and among readers everywhere.
About the Author
Claudio Apone is an Italian novelist, screenwriter, and author of three young-adult books published in Italy: My Grandfather Jack the Ripper (1998), Metropolitan Frankenstein (1999), and Club Orbital: Adventures in Space (1999). This is Apone's first publication in English. He Lives In Pavia, Italy. |
Author: Paul Begg
Tuesday, 06 March 2001 - 12:06 pm | | | I've read it and it's quite good for what it is and deals matter of factly with some issues like alcoholism that most childrens' writers would back away from. It was reveiewed a little while ago in "Rip..." Well, you know all that stuff about subscribing.... |
Author: Tom Wescott
Tuesday, 06 March 2001 - 04:03 pm | | Chris, Wolf, Paul,
Thanks for the info! I'll pick it up used if I happen to find it.
Paul,
Since (at least I think) we're all subscribers, perhaps you should be pushing your back issues! 
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott |
Author: Paul Begg
Wednesday, 07 March 2001 - 06:31 am | | | I am, Tom, I am! But not everyone here is a subscriber, difficult though that is to believe! |
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