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Sto caricando le informazioni... Four Cornersdi Diane Freund
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"I was ten the summer we drove my mother crazy." And so starts this captivating debut novel, narrated by ten-year-old Rainey Dougherty. It's August 1953 in Four Corners, New York, when Rainey's mother is hospitalized for mental instability--or, as Rainey's father puts it, when the doctors say she needs a good long rest. Rainey and her four siblings find themselves at the mercy of Merle, their caustically funny and bitter aunt who comes up to the country from the Bronx--with her troubled fourteen-year-old daughter, Joan--to take care of that "goddamn bunch of nuts" she knows these children are. This starts a summer of enlightenment for Rainey when she learns about the realities of life through the eyes of innocence. And, though it seems strange at first, Merle's voice is the one clear note in Rainey's head as she begins a season without her mother, a season that brings both the young girls to the brink of disaster, again and again. For Rainey, it is a season that is often harrowing, sometimes hilarious, but always hopeful. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.63)
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Rainey is a ten year old girl, who is wise beyond her years. What she doesn't figure out, her fourteen year old cousin, Joan or her Aunt Merle, are more than willing to teach her.
It is when Rainey's mother has a nervous breakdown and must be hospitalized that Merle and Joan come to care for Rainey and her four siblings. They come from the Bronx to Four Corners. Aunt Merle has issues of her own, and is a bitter, unhappy person. Eventually her abusive husband and son join them in Four Corners, adding to the chaos.
Rainey's father tries hard to keep his family together. He brings her mother home for visits, trying to piece the family back together. Neighbors try to help, but one becomes a source of contention as Merle seeks his attention. This also affects precocious Joan.
The effects of mental illness, in different forms, are evident in this family. Rainey watches as her family suffers and spins out of control, trying to make sense of it all.
Diane Freund creates well defined characters with very real problems. Her book is multifaceted, pieced together skillfully. Beautifully told in memorable prose, Four Corners will leave you wondering what happened to the family and to Rainey. (