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Tom Davis (4) (1970–)

Autore di Red Letters: Living a Faith That Bleeds

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Tom Davis writes about life in the American South in short stories, articles, and poems. Davis, a resident of Fayetteville, N.C., uses personal experience, imagination, and humor to tell stories about Southern people and events. Davis combines true elements, such as the names of actual persons and mostra altro events that really took place, with descriptions of imaginary people and places. Davis's books include What Would You Like on Your Mashed Potatoes?, The Long and the Short, Pickberry Pig, and The Patrol Order. Davis's works are also included in A Loving Voice and A Loving Voice II, anthologies of read-aloud short stories. Davis also publishes extensively in newspapers and journals, such as The Carolina Runner, Poet's Sanctuary, and Special Warfare, a professional military journal published by the Special Warfare Center. He has won numerous awards from Byline, a national magazine for writers. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1970
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Colorado, USA

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This novel is a prime example of agenda fiction. The point of view alternates between two first-person accounts: photojournalist Stuart Daniels, who has come to Swaziland hoping to take a career-resurrecting photo, and twelve-year-old Adanna, a Swazi girl barely surviving in a land of starvation and abuse. The plot isn't so much a linear arc as a series of events demonstrating the plight of Africa. Stuart arrives skeptical and jaded and leaves transformed by all that he's witnessed.

The author succeeds in transporting his readers to a bleak landscape unfamiliar to most. American readers "know" that daily life in Africa is a struggle, but the events depicted here give stark detail to abstract knowledge. As agenda fiction goes, the purpose here is one that can't be argued with or, hopefully, shrugged away.

As a novel, though, the book's craft didn't satisfy me. For the first 80-something pages, the reader is forced to swim through a soup of similes. Every single description is a comparison. This improves later in the book, but similes are still overused, often two or more in a paragraph. The characters are not individuals with quirks but rather mouthpieces for the author's message. The majority of the dialogue reads like a nonfiction essay on the horrors of African village life. Character conversations usually consist of sharing information or planning what to do next.

The themes/content and potential of the book rate four stars, but the prose, dialogue, and characterization earn two. I'm glad I read it, though. I learned a lot, especially from the afterword interview with the author. This book provides American readers with a needed education.
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AmandaGStevens | 4 altre recensioni | Mar 2, 2019 |
A beautiful and haunting novel that will remain with you after you've finished.
 
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bookalover89 | 4 altre recensioni | Feb 10, 2011 |
Tom Davis writes his fiction in a way that takes you there. With Scared, I arrived in Africa to the smells, With Priceless I can see the sites and almost hear the music. Priceless is the second book in the Edge of the World series. In this novel, Tom introduces us to Marina, a young orphan, rescued out of child slavery/prostitution and her story. Her story is told alongside Stuarts. Stuart a father, husband and international photojournalist, has landed himself right in the midst of a battle between right and wrong, a battle of trying to rescue young orphan girls out of the child prostitution ring in Russia. A ring which the local law enforcement and governing authorities have accepted large amounts of money to ignore. Like his first book, this is a must read that will leave you thinking differently but more importantly, cause you to want to make a difference. Fortunately, there is a website you can visit at the end of the book where you can help bring about that change. Read it, but only if you dare.… (altro)
 
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savedbyhisblood | 1 altra recensione | Jun 10, 2010 |
This book is fantastic and very edgy. It really opened my eyes regarding the sex slave trade in Russia. This author really knows how to illuminate problems in this world in such as way as to produce compassion for oppressed people groups, especially orphans.
 
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MichelleSutton | 1 altra recensione | May 21, 2010 |

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4
Utenti
339
Popolarità
#70,285
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
8
ISBN
60
Lingue
2

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