Author: Brian Hall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052550785X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"A novel wise in the complexities of adolescence and the human heart." --The Washington Post Longing to escape the rundown commune outside of Ithaca, New York where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseus, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. But Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her real-life, long-lost father, who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that turns into an epic adventure of love, sex, and lies. Saskia is as unforgettable as her own heroes, a young girl whose story resonates with a rare and joyous sense of life and discovery.
The Saskiad
Author: Brian Hall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052550785X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"A novel wise in the complexities of adolescence and the human heart." --The Washington Post Longing to escape the rundown commune outside of Ithaca, New York where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseus, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. But Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her real-life, long-lost father, who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that turns into an epic adventure of love, sex, and lies. Saskia is as unforgettable as her own heroes, a young girl whose story resonates with a rare and joyous sense of life and discovery.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052550785X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"A novel wise in the complexities of adolescence and the human heart." --The Washington Post Longing to escape the rundown commune outside of Ithaca, New York where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseus, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. But Saskia's elaborate fantasies are soon upstaged by her real-life, long-lost father, who leads Saskia and her best friend Jane on a camping trip that turns into an epic adventure of love, sex, and lies. Saskia is as unforgettable as her own heroes, a young girl whose story resonates with a rare and joyous sense of life and discovery.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
Author: Tracey Watson
Publisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN: 9780787678937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Publisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN: 9780787678937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
The Saskiad
Author: Brian Hall
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312181710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A young girl's fantasies of adventure are upstaged and then shattered by the arrival of her long-lost father, who leads the child and her best friend on a camping trip that turns into a magical mystery tour of love, sex, and lies.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312181710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A young girl's fantasies of adventure are upstaged and then shattered by the arrival of her long-lost father, who leads the child and her best friend on a camping trip that turns into a magical mystery tour of love, sex, and lies.
The New Yorker
Author: Harold Wallace Ross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
World Authors 1990-1995
Author: Clifford Thompson
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Representing a broad range of ethnic diversity, these in-depth profiles present fascinating accounts of lives and careers, the circumstances under which works were produced, and their literary significance. Each profile also includes critical evaluation, a list of the author's principal works with date first published, a list of major critical works, and a portrait or photograph where available.
Publisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
Representing a broad range of ethnic diversity, these in-depth profiles present fascinating accounts of lives and careers, the circumstances under which works were produced, and their literary significance. Each profile also includes critical evaluation, a list of the author's principal works with date first published, a list of major critical works, and a portrait or photograph where available.
New Statesman
Madeleine's World
Author: Brian Hall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788169052
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book is a biography of Brian Hall's daughter, Madeleine. It begins with her birth and ends on her 3rd birthday. Along the way, it describes the transition from infant solipsism to toddler self-absorption to a small person's sociability. It records monumental achievements and devastating disillusionments. The biography is a map of an expanding world in which dragons still roam but terra incognito is pushed inexorably back. Although this is the record of an individual life, anyone interested in children will find themselves swept up in this fundamental and universal voyage, as Hall charts the rising arc of a new consciousness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788169052
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book is a biography of Brian Hall's daughter, Madeleine. It begins with her birth and ends on her 3rd birthday. Along the way, it describes the transition from infant solipsism to toddler self-absorption to a small person's sociability. It records monumental achievements and devastating disillusionments. The biography is a map of an expanding world in which dragons still roam but terra incognito is pushed inexorably back. Although this is the record of an individual life, anyone interested in children will find themselves swept up in this fundamental and universal voyage, as Hall charts the rising arc of a new consciousness.
The Teen Reader's Advisor
Author: RoseMary Honnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Organized into eighteen thematic chapters, offers more than nineteen hundred annotated listings of recommended titles for young adults.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Organized into eighteen thematic chapters, offers more than nineteen hundred annotated listings of recommended titles for young adults.
Great Neck
Author: Jay Cantor
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer that makes their mission clear. From the front line of the civil rights movement to Andy Warhol’s New York art scene, from comic book superheroes to the violent maelstrom of the Weather Underground, Great Neck immerses us in a charged time not so long ago, and illuminates the lives of those who were shaped by its energies and ideals. Vigorous, funny, profound and altogether gripping, it is a masterpiece of contemporary literature.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the world on a better course; but it is the murder of a much-loved older brother during Mississippi’s Freedom Summer that makes their mission clear. From the front line of the civil rights movement to Andy Warhol’s New York art scene, from comic book superheroes to the violent maelstrom of the Weather Underground, Great Neck immerses us in a charged time not so long ago, and illuminates the lives of those who were shaped by its energies and ideals. Vigorous, funny, profound and altogether gripping, it is a masterpiece of contemporary literature.