Jack il diavolo a molla. Una storia di coraggio e crudeltà

By Philip Pullman

1991

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3.33

Average Rating

112

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0H01M

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Tre fratellini chiusi in un orribile orfanatrofio decidono di fuggire e imbarcarsi per l'America. Ma uno di loro viene rapito da un losco malvivente, che chiede come riscatto un prezioso medaglione, l'unico ricordo che i tre hanno dei loro genitori. Per fortuna in loro aiuto accorre un supereroe strampalato, Jack dai tacchi a molla, che non solo salverà loro, ma anche tutti gli orfani dell'orfanatrofio dai crudeli gestori e troverà anche i genitori dei tre fratellini: più supereroe di così!

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3 STARS

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Author

Philip Pullman

Author · 45 books

As a passionate believer in the democracy of reading, I don't think it's the task of the author of a book to tell the reader what it means. The meaning of a story emerges in the meeting between the words on the page and the thoughts in the reader's mind. So when people ask me what I meant by this story, or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one, I have to explain that I'm not going to explain. Anyway, I'm not in the message business; I'm in the "Once upon a time" business. Philip Pullman is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass, which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. In 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He lives in Oxford, England.