David and Della
Paul Zindel
Published by Red Fox
0-09-933661-8, £3.50 pbk
Zindel's enviable knack of making witty and credible links between bizarre teenage behaviour and deeper universal truths is as on-target as ever. Della is a talented, dipsomaniac actress who lives in her own fantasies and David is her lonely pupil, a would-be playwright with writer's block. Together they inhabit a world that is 'really nuts and lonely' and out of it construct an alternative existence where they achieve 'wanting what isn't.' An acquired taste!
Reviewed in BfK No. 93 (July 1995) by David Bennett (DB)
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