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Peck, Richard

Don't Look and It Won't Hurt

153 pp. | Holt | November, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-6316-1 $$16.95
1972
(2) YA Peck's first novel was the basis for the 1992 film Gas Food Lodging. Despite its Vietnam, pre-Roe v. Wade setting (both the war and teen pregnancy figure in the plot), the book remains remarkably contemporary and subtle in its treatment of the changing relationships of three sisters.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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