Diane Les Becquets
Autore di Breaking Wild
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Opere di Diane Les Becquets
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
Colorado, USA
New Hampshire, USA - Attività lavorative
- professor
medical journalist
archaelogy assistant
marketing consultant
sand and gravel dispatcher
copywriter (mostra tutto 7)
lifeguard - Organizzazioni
- Southern New Hampshire University
- Breve biografia
- After writing three award-winning young adult novels, Diane Les Becquets, a faculty member in the MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University, launched her career as a writer of adult fiction with BREAKING WILD, published by Berkley/Penguin Random House. The novel, a page-turning suspense, takes place in the wilds of Northwestern Colorado, an area where Les Becquets lived, backpacked, snowshoed, hunted, bicycled, worked archaeology, and raised three sons, for almost fourteen years. Les Becquets is a native of Nashville, TN where as a child she built forts in the woods behind her home, explored the creek for miles and miles, played sports, and listened to classical guitar and country music. However, she also considers herself a product of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where her father's family lives - where she spent every waking moment outdoors fishing and exploring the UP timber, skipping rocks and daydreaming, riding three-wheelers and then four-wheelers, watching the Chicago Cubs and the Green Bay Packers, and reading and listening to opera with her uncle. She is a volunteer with Back in the Saddle Therapeutic Riding Center in New Hampshire, where she now lives, enjoys nature in all of its aspects, loves her family and friends, pistachio ice cream, folk music, snow quinzees, and has a deep admiration for great books and kind writers, of whom there are many. [retrieved 3/31/2016 from Amazon.com Author Page]
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- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 497
- Popolarità
- #49,748
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 46
- ISBN
- 25
The novel is told in alternating chapters from both Amy and Pru's point of view, and also goes back in forth in time so the reader learns about each woman's childhood, young adult life, and current situation. While at the most literal level Amy is "lost" and Pru "seeks" her, the reader learns that in the metaphorical sense each of the women is both "lost" and "seeking". Both characters have a realistic depth to them, and Les Becquets gives us a novel that feels both character-driven, with the suspense of wanting to know how the plot will end.
I mention the two women as main characters, but Les Becquets beautifully draws a third character worth mentioning -- the landscape. Nature plays an important role in the story and the author's vibrant description of the setting (and Amy and Pru's love of nature) is thoroughly enjoyable.
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for a galley of this book in exchange for an honest review.… (altro)