When James' father is blown to bits by a bomb he intended to kill others with, the boy keeps him alive in his imagination as a superhero, escaping the daily gri... » 

When James' father is blown to bits by a bomb he intended to kill others with, the boy keeps him alive in his imagination as a superhero, escaping the daily grind of school, his mother's drinking and his own acute loneliness. But, gradually, through the agonies of adolescence, James begins to understand the real cost of his father's heroism. «