Robert Cormier
Frenchtown Summer
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Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys' trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world-the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier's touching, funny, melanchol…
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Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world of a mill town: the boys swimming in a brook that is red or purple or green, depending on the dyes dumped that day by the comb shop; the visit of the ice man; and the boys' trips to the cemetery or the forbidden railroad tracks. And here also is a darker world-the mystery of a girl murdered years before. Robert Cormier's touching, funny, melancholy chronicle of a vanished world celebrates a son's connection to his father and human relationships that are timeless.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Krovatin, Dan (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-307-55628-8
- EAN: 9780307556288
- Produktnummer: 19890689
- Verlag: Random House Children's Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'832 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 J.
Über den Autor
Robert Cormier (1925-2000) changed the face of young adult literature over the course of his illustrious career. His many books include The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese, Fade, Tenderness, After the First Death, Heroes, Frenchtown Summer, and The Rag and Bone Shop. In 1991 he received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring his lifetime contribution to writing for teens.Dan Krovatin is an illustrator who created artwork for Otis: On the Occasion of His Foray into the Wilderness of Civilization and Frenchtown Summer.
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