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Still Life with Tornado
por King, A.S
- Usado
- Condição
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1101994886
- ISBN 13
- 9781101994887
- Livreiro
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Dutton Books for Young Readers. Used - Good.
Avaliações
Em May 6 2017, CloggieDownunder disse:
"Maybe I pretend that my family is normal when I know it's not normal to have a runaway brother. Maybe my whole life I've been living inside of an imaginary painting. I can't figure out how I feel about this. But I know I feel uncomfortable. All the time"
Still Life with Tornado is the eighth novel by American author, A.S. King. Sixteen-year-old Sarah has always loved art, and she's good at it. But something happened at school, and now she can't draw at all. And nothing ever happens there anyway, everything is always the same, nothing new or original, so she begins to skip classes. It eventually becomes apparent than an act of theft and wilful vandalism has set in motion an existential crisis.
As a truant Sarah wanders the streets of Philadelphia, she encounters other versions of herself: aged ten, then aged twenty-three and later, forty. Conversations with her other selves lead her to recall the events of the family's Mexican vacation six years earlier, the vacation that triggered her brother Bruce's disappearance. Sarah benefits from the clear, innocent perspective of her 10 year old self, the cynicism of her 23 year old self and the wisdom of her 40 year old self.
King employs three distinct narratives: sixteen year old Sarah relates present-day events, while ten year old Sarah's account of the Mexican vacation slowly reveals the cause of Bruce's exile. Helen's view of her marriage to Chet completes the picture of a family destined for crisis. There's a bit of magical reality going on (the four Sarahs) but it's deftly done and not so weird as to be completely bizarre. Watching her ten year old self in the gallery: "I see her looking around for the security guard. I remember being her and thinking 'just one touch' as if touching the same thing Picasso touched would give her the talent to become him".
What at first seems to be a book about teen angst goes much deeper: psychological abuse, domestic violence, sexual predators, bullying, homelessness, friendship and loyalty also feature. King skilfully builds her tale, gradually revealing the true situation as her protagonist's appreciation of the facts develops. Eventually Sarah sees how it really is between her parents: "'Good,' they say in unison. And then they look annoyed that they said something in unison. Then they fake smile at each other, but I'm starting to understand that smiling is really just another way of baring one's teeth".
This is a novel that is original and different: it's clever and thought-provoking, and is bound to have wider appeal than the Young Adult genre in which it sits. Recommended.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- More Than Words Inc.
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- WAL-L-1e-001785
- Título
- Still Life with Tornado
- Autor
- King, A.S
- Estado do livro
- Used - Good
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1101994886
- ISBN 13
- 9781101994887
- Editorial
- Dutton Books for Young Readers
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2016-10
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More Than Words Inc.
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More Than Words Inc.
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Waltham, Massachusetts
Sobre More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.