Life! death! prizes! a novel

ISBN: 9781620400845 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1620400847 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (245 p.)
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2012.

May, Stephen 1964- (Author).

Summary: "Billy's mother is dead. He knows-because he reads about it in magazines-that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA mothers, social services, and Oscar's own prodigal father all think, he feels certain that he is the one for the job."--Provided by publisher.