A funny, compassionate testament to the power of the imagination to recover, reconstruct, and overcome.
Sam McWilliams was the only member of the comedy troupe Plum & Jaggers who remembered the afternoon of June 11, when the first two cars of the Rapido from Milan to Rome exploded, killing everyone on board except a four-year-old French boy and a conductor.
Haunted by the terrorist explosion that killed his parents and obsessively driven to protect his orphaned younger siblings--even if it means breaking the law--precocious, fiercely independent Sam discovers during a stint in a Washington, D.C., juvenile home that he has a gift as a writer of family comedy. So begins the dark, quirky Plum & Jaggers series of sketches about a family of children whose parents are never at home. The McWilliams family troupe rises from open-mike venues to small comedy clubs to a late-night television slot, creating a stir--and unwittingly exposing the family to new dangers that cost Sam his resilient wit and threaten his sanity.
Plum & Jaggers is the story of a family blown apart by tragedy and one person's powerful refusal to accept their fate.
Sam McWilliams was the only member of the comedy troupe Plum & Jaggers who remembered the afternoon of June 11, when the first two cars of the Rapido from Milan to Rome exploded, killing everyone on board except a four-year-old French boy and a conductor.
Haunted by the terrorist explosion that killed his parents and obsessively driven to protect his orphaned younger siblings--even if it means breaking the law--precocious, fiercely independent Sam discovers during a stint in a Washington, D.C., juvenile home that he has a gift as a writer of family comedy. So begins the dark, quirky Plum & Jaggers series of sketches about a family of children whose parents are never at home. The McWilliams family troupe rises from open-mike venues to small comedy clubs to a late-night television slot, creating a stir--and unwittingly exposing the family to new dangers that cost Sam his resilient wit and threaten his sanity.
Plum & Jaggers is the story of a family blown apart by tragedy and one person's powerful refusal to accept their fate.
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Hardback Editions
November 2000 : Hardback
| Title: Plum & Jaggers Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve ISBN: 0-374-23462-0 / 978-0-374-23462-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2000 : Hardback
| Title: Plum and Jaggers Author(s): Susan Richar Shreve ISBN: 0-374-52759-8 / 978-0-374-52759-4 (USA edition) Publisher: FARRAR STRAUS AND GIROUX Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
October 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Plum & Jaggers Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve ISBN: 0-312-42025-0 / 978-0-312-42025-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Picador USA Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2000 : Paperback
| Title: Plum and Jaggers, A Novel Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve Publisher: pub. by Farrar Straus & Giroux, nd (2000), c Availability: Amazon More details... |
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