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On the Yankee Station
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| Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 16 July 2011 |
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 On the Yankee Station
Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. |
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| Tags: their, redeem, desperate, unsatisfying, lives, Yankee, Station, heroes |
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 The Gift
The Gift is Steel to perfection. A small work, it tells the tale of two 16-year-olds whose meeting restores life to both. The death of Tommy's little sister wrecks a family's happiness. The unwanted pregnancy of Maribeth threatens to ruin her attempt to lift herself out of an anti-intellectual and sexist environment. But when the two meet, love, support, sensitivity, and some much-needed wisdom redeem the bleak circumstances of their lives and bring the story to its satisfying conclusion. Clich{‚}ed, sentimental? |
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| Tags: much-needed, wisdom, redeem, bleak, sensitivity |
