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David Almond The Tightrope Walkers (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Publication Name
- The Tightrope Walkers
- Title
- The Tightrope Walkers
- ISBN-10
- 0763691046
- EAN
- 9780763691042
- ISBN
- 9780763691042
- Release Year
- 2016
- Release Date
- 08/11/2016
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.4 Oz
- Book Title
- Tightrope Walkers
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile Fiction
- Topic
- Social Themes / Bullying, School & Education / General, General, Social Themes / Friendship, People & Places / Europe, Social Themes / General (See Also Headings under Family), Social Themes / Violence
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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"The interplay between the characters and their environments results in a stunningly human and humanizing story. This is by far Almond's best work to date." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. He craves the freedom he feels when he balances above the earth on a makeshift tightrope with the eccentric girl artist next door, Holly Stroud--his first and abiding love. Yet he also finds himself drawn to the brutal charms of Vincent McAlinden, a complex bully who awakens something wild and reckless and killing in Dom. In a raw and beautifully crafted bildungsroman, David Almond reveals the rich inner world of a boy teetering on the edge of manhood.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Candlewick Press
ISBN-10
0763691046
ISBN-13
9780763691042
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229578437
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tightrope Walkers
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Themes / Bullying, School & Education / General, General, Social Themes / Friendship, People & Places / Europe, Social Themes / General (See Also Headings under Family), Social Themes / Violence
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Reviews
The text overflows with sensory detail that lifts clean off the page the stink of the oil from the ship's dark tank and the scratch of Dom's pen as he writes his way free of his father's hard life. Almond's rough, beautiful world of books and ships, sinners and saints is a lyrical reminder of how, when we lose our equilibrium, art can redeem us. -The New York Times A tour de force. ... The novel is by turns reminiscent of classic bildungsromans such as the Billy Elliott film, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Stephen King's IT, yet it retains a distinctive heart and voice of its own. ... An absolute must-have. -School Library Journal (starred review) The award-winning Almond poetically plumbs the depths of his 1950s and ''60s childhood to explore themes of violence, war, God, creativity, beauty, death, art, the soul, our animal selves, whether we ever grow up or can really know each other…in short, life. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In a powerfully realistic bildungsroman from award-winning author Almond ( The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean ), Dominic Hall, the son of a working man from Newcastle, seems destined for greater success than was possible for his ill-educated and often angry father.... Almond's characteristic penetrating writing and finely drawn characters are on full display in a story more fully grounded in a specific and important historical moment than anything he has published heretofore. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Some books stand out for their characters, others for their sense of place, and some for their stories and themes. Almond has a facility for all those elements. The two most sharply drawn characters here are Vincent, as polluted as the Tyne but a force of nature nonetheless, and, rather surprisingly, Mr. Hall.... Teens will feel the events most viscerally-the brutishness, the love, the rejections. Adults, meanwhile, will bring their own world-weary self-knowledge, which cuts in its own way. Wild and reckless, heartbreaking and hopeful-this elegy on life is not to be missed. -Booklist (starred review) The novel is Shakespearean in its breadth, earthiness, and emotional pitch. A mysterious tramp who wanders in and out of the narrative-unspeaking, benevolent, holy-is like a precursor of Skellig. It ends with a wedding and a newborn baby, but that final section is a Rorschach test for the reader. Is the overall mode comedic or tragic? There is much room for discussion in this difficult and brilliant novel. -Horn Book (starred review) In prose that reads like richly imagistic poetry, Dom sorts through what it means to walk a metaphorical tightrope, caught between social classes, between his mother's dreams and his father's fears, between his gentler, creative nature and his attraction to the rough camaraderie of outlaw boys and working men. The interplay between the characters and their environments results in a stunningly human and humanizing story. This is by far Almond's best work to date, and in light of the awards he's already accrued, that's saying something -Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) Almond''s magnetic narrative conveys the sounds and heat of the shipyards, the smells of the circus tent where Dom and Holly see the tightrope walkers, the quality of the light at sunset after a satisfying day. And he tells of the tightrope humans walk between social divides, sanity and insanity, faith and doubt, friendship and sex, what we''re born to, what we can rise above--and what traps us. Mesmerizing. -Shelf Awareness (starred review) Almond invites readers into the hearts and minds of these characters through authentic dialogue and rich description. This is a haunting tale of the kind of conflict and tension that is just right for young adults. -Literacy Daily
Dewey Decimal
823.92
Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
Dewey Edition
23
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