Lonely boy and lonely girl, unsolved mystery.
Heartthrob Johnny, 50s bad boy, trapped for eternity. And the band begins to sing - "Lovely Maggie falls for Johnny, a boy no one else can see. And then through the intercom a song starts to crackle, the soundtrack of a forgotten life. The hallways are empty, the school day long over, the din of lockers and youthful laughter have dissolved into silence. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Deeply romantic, funny and tender, Slow Dance in Purgatory captures the heartache of a love story where a happy ending might be decades too late. Secret love and hushed affection are threatened by outside forces, resulting in a desperate race to keep a secret no one would understand. This volatile and mismatched romance is doomed from its start, as Maggie struggles to hold on to yet another person she is destined to lose. Working part-time as a school janitor, she becomes enmeshed in a fifty-year-old tragedy where nothing is as it seems and the boy of her dreams might vanish when the bell rings. Orphaned at the age of ten, 17-year-old Maggie O'Bannon finally finds a permanent home with her elderly aunt in a small Texas town. Chaos ensues, a life is lost, and Johnny Kinross disappears. Do wop, Do wop." In 1958, a rumble goes down outside the brand new high school in Honeyville, Texas. Maggie and Johnny, only highschool sweethearts, because Johnny can't ever leave.
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