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Sto caricando le informazioni... Saying it Out Loud (1999)di Joan Abelove
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. SLJ Starred Review! When I was little, I thought people died when they used up all their words," begins Abelove's poetic novel about a high-school senior whose mother is dying of a brain tumor. Mindy, whose father refuses to call her anything but her preschool nickname, Neenie, has always seen her mother as the emcee of the family, the one who smoothes things over with Father and sets the stage for him to speak. And speak he does--sometimes in excruciating detail and always with firm opinions--as, for example, when he tells Mindy that if she ever dates a non-Jewish boy, he will sit shivah for her as if she were dead. He does not, however, communicate anything of importance: he offers no guidance to help Mindy select a college, nor does he ever explain about her mother's illness. As the month (November 1961) moves on, Mindy comes to realize the many subtle ways, the ways other than words, she and her mother communicated, and she begins finding other people to turn to for support. Abelove draws this melancholy but ultimately hopeful story with delicacy of word and feeling and creates three powerful, memorable characters in the members of the family. Though in sharp contrast to Go and Come Back, a 1988 Booklist Editors' Choice, and the author's first novel, this proves once again that Abelove can write books that are not only very complex but also vibrant and infused with tenderness. Category: Older Readers. 1999, DK Ink/Richard Jackson, $15.95. Gr. 7-12. Starred Review. Susan Dove Lempke (Booklist, September 1, 1999 (Vol. 96, No. 1)) Awards: Best Books for Young Adults, 2000 ; American Library Association-YALSA; United States The Best Children's Books of the Year, 2000 ; Bank Street College of Education; United States Booklist Book Review Stars, September 1, 1999 ; United States Books for You: An Annotated Booklist for Senior High, Fourteenth Edition, 2001 ; National Council of Teachers of English; United States Middle And Junior High School Library Catalog, Supplement to the Eighth Edition, 2001 ; H.W. Wilson; United States Parent's Guide to Children's Media, 1999 ; Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media, Inc.; United States Publishers Weekly Book Review Stars, August 1999 ; Cahners; United States School Library Journal Book Review Stars, September 1999 ; Cahners; United States Senior High School Library Catalog, Supplement to the Fifteenth Edition, 2000 ; H.W. Wilson; United States nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
With the help of her best friend, sixteen-year-old Mindy sorts through her relationships with her solicitous mother and her detached father as she tries to come to terms with the fact that her mother is dying from a brain tumor. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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