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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
A menacing, beautiful and darkly comic work by an American literary sensation.
When teenage Shelby Register moves to Citrus County, Florida, with her single father and little sister, she's expecting surfers instead of rednecks, but she decides to make the best of it.
Things become complicated when Toby, a neglected, loveless boy living with his abusive uncle, becomes her twisted love interest. Toby finds trouble far more elaborate than ordinary delinquency when he enacts a strange, cruel plot on the Register clan. Then Toby realises that he can't reverse the effects of his 'prank' and his and Shelby's fates hurtle towards tragedy...
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Praise for Citrus County
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A great story in great prose, a story that keeps you turning pages even as you want to slow to savor them, full of characters who are real because they are so unlikely. - New York Times Book Review
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Brandon's dry wit, dark imagination, and surprisingly big heart combine to reveal a Florida that, despite (or because of) being more Ted Bundy that Disney World, is absolutely worth visiting. - Publishers Weekly
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Citrus County is gorgeous and deserves to be read widely. - San Francisco Chronicle
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Brandon draws his characters so deftly that we can be horrified and intrigued by them at once, and his plot just as deftly avoids cliches. - St Petersburg Times
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