Description

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This is the story about survival, and about a 13-year-old misfit's attempts to find footing in a hostile and threatening world.

Desperate, driven, harassed to the breaking point, Slake decides to go underground -- into the sheltering depths of the New York City Subway where he ends up staying for one hundred and twenty-one days.

About the Author

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Felice Holman is an author of teen novels best known for her book 'Slake's Limbo' (1974), in which the eponymous character - Aremis Slake -lives beneath the subway in a small room, his cave.