Jacob Polley
Autore di The Brink
Opere di Jacob Polley
Opere correlate
BBC Proms 2019 : Prom 11 : 1969 : The Sound of a Summer [sound recording] (2019) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1975
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Lancaster University
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 114
- Popolarità
- #171,985
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
Christopher relates events of this last day before the new school year starts, and he records it in his Cumbrian voice, so it takes a page or two to acclimatise to the narrative. But the prose has a poetic ring to it, and we see the world through the eyes of the youngster as Jacob Polley succeeds admirably in getting inside the mind of Christopher. The eyes of an inevitably slightly naive lad, as he tries to put on an acceptable front of indifference while he is in fact helpless and out of his depth.
The story swings from near farce to tense drama as events gradually unfold. Nothing is quite as it first appears, and one's heart goes out to Christopher when he finally discovers the truth, yet he stoically caries the day.… (altro)