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Chargement... The Sandy Bottom Orchestrapar Garrison Keillor
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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. A nice collaboration between Garrison Keillor and his wife, who is a violinist, this is a good book aimed at adolescent girls (although I too enjoyed it). It is about a 14-year old girl in a small town, accomplished at the violin, who is attempting to find her own voice in a place that holds conformity as a value. No intense teenage angst, but a nice story. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Fourteen-year-old Rachel comes to terms with her eccentric family while taking refuge in her violin playing. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book excels at dramatizing the fears and concerns of a fourteen-year-old girl who thinks her family is not quite normal, and the narrative comes alive when describing the musical world, whether it be orchestra practice or the experience of performing major classical works on stage. While the writing is quite good on the sentence level, there were a few moments which threw me out of the story. I was, for instance, often startled by the point of view. The story is written in a third which is often extremely close to Rachel--so close, in fact, that I often forgot it wasn't in first, and I would become momentarily confused when the narrative did pull back to a slightly more distant third. And while the book handles several different threads (the father's conducting gig, Rachel's changing relationship with her childhood best friend, a first boyfriend, Rachel's relationship with music, Rachel's concerns about her family) very well, there are a few pieces which seem to be underdeveloped or left hanging. On the whole, a good read, and recommended to Keillor fans, classical music fans, and preteens (especially those who play in an orchestra or band or who are from a small town). ( )