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Monica Wood

Auteur de The One-in-a-Million Boy

20+ oeuvres 2,838 utilisateurs 120 critiques 1 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Monica Wood was born in Maine to a devout Irish Catholic family of paper mill workers. She grew up with the tradition of storytelling . She also read quite alot as a child and soon developed a love for books. Her sister and her were the first generation in her family to attend college so she thinks afficher plus of her background as a literary one. Her fiction titles carry the theme of family throughout. Her older brother and sister are almost a generation older than her and her two sisters. Her parents died young and one of her sisters is mentally disabled, which has kept the family close throughtout the years. She works to create characters who appear real despite their circumstances. She also creates an empathy with the reader so that they care about what happens to these characters. Her titles include: Secret Language, The Pocket Muse, My Only Story, and The One-in-a-Million Boy. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Monica Wood

The One-in-a-Million Boy (2016) 800 exemplaires
The Pocket Muse (2002) 556 exemplaires
Any Bitter Thing (2005) 392 exemplaires
Description (1995) 340 exemplaires
Ernie's Ark (2001) 106 exemplaires
My Only Story (2000) 97 exemplaires
Secret Language (1605) 62 exemplaires
The Way Life Should Be (2005) 12 exemplaires
How to Read a Book: A Novel (2023) 10 exemplaires
A Woman in a Million (2016) 7 exemplaires
A Arca (2022) 3 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contributeur — 213 exemplaires
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997) — Contributeur — 117 exemplaires
A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice (2008) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1950
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
Mexico, Maine, USA (birth)
Professions
writer

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Boy Scout is assigned to help an elderly woman each Saturday for 3 months. They develop a unique friendship, with her telling him her life and giving him guidance in his. The boy comes up with her being in the Guiness Book of world records. Hilarious what they come up with to enter her for - oldest living woman, oldest driver (and he's teaching her to get her license back). But when the boy dies suddenly, the father takes over bringing a lot of joy to both of them.
 
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nancynova | 65 autres critiques | Mar 8, 2024 |
I cannot overstate the tenderness of this novel. A story of unusual friendships, world records, loss, and deep, deep bonding, The One-in-a-Million Boy will break your heart over and over again. But then it'll put you back together, and it'll all be worth it.
 
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Elianaclaire | 65 autres critiques | Jan 3, 2024 |
Oh. Oh, how I loved this book. It captured my imagination immediately, and it didn’t let go - not even for a moment - the entire time I was reading it. The writing is lyrical, poetic, and breathtaking. The plot heartbreaking, uplifting, and hopeful. The characters genuine, likeable, and so very, very human. I haven’t read a book like this in ages. I wanted to live inside the world Wood created. I wanted to be friends with Ona, and Quinn, and Belle. And most of all, I wanted to know the boy the way they knew him, because I’m sure my life, too, would be enriched by his presence. The One-In-A-Million Boy takes an honest, sweet, and lovely look at the challenges of loving someone with a developmental disability - while never naming the boy’s disability, or the boy himself. An absolute triumph of a novel. I can’t wait to read more of Wood’s work.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Elizabeth_Cooper | 65 autres critiques | Oct 27, 2023 |
This is a book of interwoven stories about folks in a mill town in Maine. There's a strike and the town is suffering both due to the lack of wages but also the usual angst and pains that are part of life. This was the first book I've managed to finish in months as I've been too distracted to stay focused. So, yes, this is a very easy, approachable book. I am not sure to think of it as a novel or a book of short stories. I liked the stories and the primary story about Ernie and his ark, but I didn't feel that the reader got closure with all the characters. There's a lot of threads left unpulled. That said it did a good job of laying out the scope of the impact of strikes and closures in one-employer small towns. I wish there had been more description of place since Maine is of interest to me.… (plus d'informations)
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technodiabla | 4 autres critiques | Sep 8, 2023 |

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Œuvres
20
Aussi par
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Membres
2,838
Popularité
#9,041
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
120
ISBN
71
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Favoris
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