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When Olive's best friend, Walter, flies outside, she doesn't know if she will ever be able to find him. Walter is small and the city is very big. But Olive knows that her special acrobat-detective-explorer-pirate skills will help her find Walter - won't they? Can Olive find her friend? Keen-eyed readers may have to help her.
"Understanding T.C. Boyle is the first book-length study of one of contemporary America's most prolific, popular, and critically acclaimed fiction writers."--Inside jacket.
Walter Van Brunt is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speed. He likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts. When he receives a new plastic foot he is determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.