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Chargement... The Carnival at Braypar Jessie Ann Foley
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Sweet, well-written, romantic Young Adult novel. Nice descriptions of Irish village life, especially with regard to the elderly character of Dan Sean. Some heavy themes and lots of tie-ins to early 1990s music, which might be an education for both currently teenage readers and old fogies like me who were only vaguely paying attention to Nirvana & co. at the time. Although I'm doubtful about a happy future for main characters Maggie and Eoin (see old fogey status referred to above), I probably would have fallen hard for the ending Foley chose for their story when I was their age, so I'll try not to rain on their parade. Three and a half stars. ( ) The Carnival of Bray follows sixteen-year old Maggie from her home in Chicago to the Northern hills of Ireland and the through the old streets of Rome. Set during the grunge era of the early nineties, Nirvana plays like a soundtrack to Maggies' life as she adjusts to a new life in Ireland, deals with loss, and falls in love for the first time. This book has won several awards, including being a Printz Honor Winner and ALA Top Ten Best Fiction For Young Adults. A must read for fans of YA realistic fiction! -SB aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big-city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she'll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life- altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all, live. The Carnival at Bray is an evocative ode to the Smells Like Teen Spirit Generation and a heartfelt exploration of tragedy, first love, and the transformative power of music. The book won the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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