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Leave Before You Go Hardback - 2000

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Author: Perkins, Emily
ISBN: 9780060196615

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"Leave Before You Go is about Daniel, an average guy whose determination to escape the daily grind of London drives him to risk his life.Lured by a free trip and the promise of ten thousand dollars, Daniel boards a plane to pick up a "delivery" for an acquaintance. Shortly after his plane lands, he finds himself trafficking heroin from Thailand, penniless, and paranoid on the other side of the world.

Daniel's misadventures as a drug smuggler leads him into the netherworld of grungy hostels and casinos in New Zealand, where he wins--and loses--a fortune in one night. Reduced to petty thievery, he must beg, borrow, and steal in order to live from hand to mouth. His desperate searches for shelter and employment steer him in many directions, all of which seem to lead directly to Kate.

Kate works as a disgruntled usher in a cinema in Auckland, constantly drifting in the shadow of her more successful sister, Nina. As she wrestles with what to do with her life, she contends with some not-so-latent feelings for her ex-boyfriend, Frank. When Daniel arrives unexpectedly to stay with her best friends, Lucy and Josh, Kate suspects that she has seen him somewhere before. Wasn't he the stranger she caught sneaking into the cinema? Or was he the one she'd noticed shoplifting at the bookstore? Only when Daniel moves into her ex-boyfriend's empty apartment does Kate begin to piece together some of the coincidences that have brought them together.

With humor and insight, "Leave Before You Go charts the seeming randomness of relationships in early adulthood. When Daniel's and Kate's worlds collide, their relationship offers a witty portrait of a new kind of lost generation.

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Title Leave Before You Go
Author Emily Perkins
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 304
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication date 2000-05
ISBN 9780060196615 / 0060196610
Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.69 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 14.45 x 2.79 cm)
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Love stories, New Zealand
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99019031
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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