Faraway Places
A American, Glbt, Historical book. The good thing about this book is that it's 124 pages. The bad thing is that the author...
During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view of his parents and the world around him. Faraway Places won widespread praise for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular skill in inhabiting the mind of a troubled adolescent boy.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 124 pages
- ISBN: 9780060975524 / 60975520
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Sometimes one hundred pages passes in no time at all, and sometimes they seem to take an eternity. This novella by Spanbauer is of the former, a sort of prairie gothic. And once you begin you cannot stop. Its a bit formulaic and there are typical first novel giveaways such as blatant foreshadowing and the description of the farm layout... This book is remarkable. It tends to get marked down a bit, being Spanbauer's first book, starting off with a lot of imagery-laden scene setting, and, sure, it's not as massive and expansive as his following novels--Now is the Hour is like Faraway Places exploded and stretched out; just as good, exploring more deeply the themes set... The good thing about this book is that it's 124 pages. The bad thing is that the author took a 50 page story and dragged it out. The author also kept repeating things, and it just felt discombobulated.
