This is the year that Larry Morrison is ten; the year that a man takes fifteen hundred dollars from a bank and commits...

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ANOTHER PART OF THE HOUSE

This is the year that Larry Morrison is ten; the year that a man takes fifteen hundred dollars from a bank and commits suicide; and that Larry learns that Uncle Calvin who lives with them, a mean, shiftless and jobless sort, has stolen from his father's drugstore--a little money and a last bottle of Bayer's aspirin. This is also the time that his older brother Tad, the most popular and best looking boy in town, has the flu which becomes the pneumonia which kills him. . . and Larry is left wondering whether he'd pulled the covers off him in his sleep. Another Death in the Family it's not--but Mr. Estes tells his story in terms which speak to everyone and extends the experience--""When a person dies, there's certainly a lot more to it than being sad."" He'll find readers--another part of the house might be any room, anytime, anywhere.

Pub Date: April 13, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1970

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