Book
The game of Love and Death
Call Number
- FICTION BROC TEEN (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015.
Physical Description
329 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
Antony and Cleopatra. Helen of Troy and Paris. Romeo and Juliet. And now... Henry and Flora. For centuries Love and Death have chosen their players. They have set the rules, rolled the dice, and kept close, ready to influence, angling for supremacy. And Death has always won. Always. Could there ever be one time, one place, one pair whose love would truly tip the balance? Meet Flora Saudade, an African-American girl who dreams of becoming the next Amelia Earhart by day and sings in the smoky jazz clubs of Seattle by night. Meet Henry Bishop, born a few blocks and a million worlds away, a white boy with his future assured -- a wealthy adoptive family in the midst of the Great Depression, a college scholarship, and all the opportunities in the world seemingly available to him. The players have been chosen. The dice have been rolled. But when human beings make moves of their own, what happens next is anyone's guess.
Subjects
- Death (Personification) > Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage boys > Juvenile fiction.
- African American teenage girls > Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
- Women jazz singers > Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
- Depressions > 1929 > Juvenile fiction.
- Love > Fiction.
- Death > Fiction.
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Race relations > Fiction.
- Seattle (Wash.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Seattle (Wash.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.