by Felice Holman · Casterman · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782203030725
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«Le Robinson du métro» is the young adult novel by Felice Holman, published by Casterman in paperback (139 pages, in French).
Slake, a lonely orphan living in New York, escapes ill-treatment by taking refuge in the subway. One day he decides never to return to the surface and settles in an underground cavity. There he survives for a hundred and twenty-one days with ingenuity, creating his own world in a story about loneliness, survival and the search for a home.
Work originally published as 'Slake's Limbo' in 1974; translated by Jean La Gravière and illustrated by Hanno Baumfelder. Feeling collection (no. 2). Winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Recommended for ages 12 and up, for young readers interested in stories of survival and personal growth.
American children's book author, poet, and young adult novelist
