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Synopsis
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
| Size | | Length: | 384 pages | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable."
Industry Reviews
"Where, in the end--and in the THE END--does the 'Unfortunate Events' series leave us? It leaves us reminded of what an interesting and offbeat educator Handler is. In between all the exotic ethnic food references and the gallows humor and the teaching of words like 'denouement' and 'vaporetto,' the books seem at times like a covert mission to turn their readers into slightly dark-hued sophisticates."
(10/22/2006)
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