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[ 책 소개 ]
* Newbery Honor 수상도서
* National Book Award Finalist
* An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
* A Riverbank Review, Book of Distinction of the Year
* School Library Journal, Top 100 Children’s Novels
미국의 9년간의 대공황기에 시카고에 사는 두 남매가 매년 여름 1주일간 일리노이 시골에 사는 할머니 집을 방문해서 겪은 재미있는 경험을 년도순으로 들려줍니다. 두 남매는 할머니가 사는 일리노이 시골이 전혀 따분하지 않고 여러가지 흥미진진한 에피소드들로 가득차 있으며, 고리타분한 줄 알았던 할머니가 실은 정말 특이하고 재미있는 분이라는 것을 알게 됩니다. 그리고는 평생 잊지 못할 9년간의 여름을 경험합니다.
첫 Chapter를 읽고나면 책 마지막 페이지를 다 읽을 때 까지 손에서 책을 뗄 수 없게 만드는 흥미진진한 내용이 가득한 책입니다(영어로 이런 책을 Page turner라고 표현하지요). 그러면서도 책을 다 읽고 나면 가슴에 깊은 감동을 남겨주는 뛰어난 명작입니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 0141303522
ISBN-13: 978-0141303529
책 크기 : 19.6 cm x 12.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 }
Book Description
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice--two city slickers from Chicago--make their annual summer visit to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? In the tradition of American humorists Mark Twain and Flannery O'Connor, Richard Peck has created this memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
From School Library Journal
A rollicking celebration of an eccentric grandmother and childhood memories. Set in the 1930s, the book follows Joe and Mary Alice Dowdel as they make their annual August trek to visit their grandmother who lives in a sleepy Illinois town somewhere between Chicago and St. Louis. A woman with plenty of moxie, she keeps to herself, a difficult task in this small community. However, Grandma Dowdel uses her wit and ability to tell whoppers to get the best of manipulative people or those who put on airs. She takes matters into her own hands to intimidate a father who won't control his unruly sons, and forces the bank to rescind a foreclosure on an elderly woman's house. Whether it's scaring a pretentious newspaper man back to the city or stealing the sheriff's boat and sailing right past him as he drunkenly dances with his buddies at the Rod & Gun Club, she never ceases to amaze her grandchildren with her gall and cunning behavior. Each chapter resembles a concise short story. Peck's conversational style has a true storyteller's wit, humor, and rhythm. Joe, the narrator, is an adult looking back on his childhood memories; in the prologue, readers are reminded that while these tales may seem unbelievable, "all memories are true." Perfect for reading aloud, A Long Way from Chicago is a great choice for family sharing. |
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