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Holly Burns ist hin- und hergerissen, als ihr 19-jähriger Sohn Ben an Heiligabend unverhofft vor der Tür steht. Die vierfache Mutter möchte nur zu gern glauben, dass ihr Ältester sein Drogenproblem endlich im Griff hat. Aber die Zweifel bleiben. Vor allem Schwester Ivy und Stiefvater Neal sind skeptisch. Hat er die Familie nicht schon oft genug ins Chaos gestürzt? In den folgenden turbulenten 24 Stunden versucht Holly alles, um ihre Familie zu...

Holly Burns ist hin- und hergerissen, als ihr 19-jähriger Sohn Ben an Heiligabend unverhofft vor der Tür steht. Die vierfache Mutter möchte nur zu gern glauben, dass ihr Ältester sein Drogenproblem endlich im Griff hat. Aber die Zweifel bleiben. Vor allem Schwester Ivy und Stiefvater Neal sind skeptisch. Hat er die Familie nicht schon oft genug ins Chaos gestürzt? In den folgenden turbulenten 24 Stunden versucht Holly alles, um ihre Familie zu...

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Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1, 091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hook...

Most of us have uttered this familiar refrain: The movie is never as good as the book. About a Boy flies in the face of that maxim.

From Academy Award-nominated screenwriter/novelist Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, About A Boy, A Map of the World). Includes scene notes and an addendum by Peter Hedges with twelve pages deleted from the opening.

Paints the portrait of a 24-year old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. The film adaptation stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp.

A "devilishly delightful" (Bookpage) new novel from an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Tim and Kate Welch are seemingly the last middle-class family in the exclusive neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, NewYork. Tim is a popular history teacher, and an ordinary guy. Kate is not ordinary, but she aspires to be. Brought up by a hippie mother, Kate stays home with their two young sons trying to be ...

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In a small town in Iowa, Scotty Ocean has announced that seven is going to be his year. It does turn out to be his year, but not quite the one he had imagined. It is the year his mother abandons the family. At first, Scotty does astonishing things to get her to return. When he realizes she won't be coming back, he decides he must replace her. And when that proves impossible, he takes the dramatic step of trying to remain seven forever.Funny, s...