Lost Between Houses
Lost Between Houses is the kind of book that makes you either pine for your youth or cringe at its memory. Novelist David Gilmour perfectly captures both the bliss and the bittersweetness of being a teenager. Sixteen-year-old rich kid Simon Albright--smart and articulate, with a youthful mix of swagger and self-consciousness--lives with his modern-thinking mother and his older brother while nursing a strained connection to his neglectful, emotionally troubled father. When Simon begins an intense liaison with a sophisticated, beautiful girl named Scarlet, he attempts to keep an air of cool about him as he walks through the minefield of teenage romance. "I don't usually eat around girls, " he declares. "Too many opportunities to look unattractive. " (When he catches her eating with her mouth open, though, he finds it "sort of relaxed me seeing Scarlet do stuff wrong. ") Simon nurtures his new romance during a dreamy summer at his family's cottage. However, as he begins his final year in school amid new and unsettling circumstances, his relationships with both Scarlet and his father change, and Simon begins his descent into adulthood. Novelist David Gilmour, former host of the award-winning television program Gilmour on the Arts, has a stunning understanding of how the teenage mind works, and in Simon he has created a character likeable enough to engage us but with enough of an edge to make him real. The comparison to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is obvious, but it's a deserved compliment nonetheless. --Moe Berg Author(s): David Gilmour. Binding Paperback. Publisher(s): Vintage Canada. Label: Vintage Canada.
| Fabricant: | Vintage Canada |
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| Prix le plus bas (CAD): | 10,00 $ |
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| Auteur : | David Gilmour |
| Format : | Paperback |
| Marque : | Vintage Canada |
