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Heather O’neill’s Critically Acclaimed Debut Novel, With A New Introduction From The Author To Celebrate Its Ten-year Anniversary Baby, All Of Thirteen Years Old, Is Lost In The Gangly, Coltish Moment Between Childhood And The Strange Pulls And Temptations Of The Adult World. Her Mother Is Dead; Her Father, Jules, Is Scarcely More Than A Child Himself And Is Always On The Lookout For His Next Score. Baby Knows That “chocolate Milk” Is Jules’ Slang For Heroin And Sees A Lot More Of That In Her House Than The Real Thing. But She Takes Vivid Delight In The Scrappy Bits Of Happiness And Beauty That Find Their Way To Her, And Moves Through The Threat Of The Streets As If She’s Been Choreographed In A Dance. Soon, Though, A Hazard Emerges That Is Bigger Than Even Her Hard-won Survival Skills Can Handle. Alphonse, The Local Pimp, Has His Eye On Her For His New Girl—and What The Johns Don’t Take He Covets For Himself. If Baby Cannot Learn To Become Her Own Salvation, His Dark World Threatens To Claim Her, Body And Soul. Channeling The Artlessly Affecting Voice Of Her Thirteen-year-old Heroine With Extraordinary Accuracy And Power, Heather O’neill’s Debut Novel Blew Readers Away When It Was

Who reads Lullabies for Little Criminals : A Novel?

Author

O'Neill, Heather

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061856907

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.95 / 5 (50 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14