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[ 책 소개 ]
* Flicker Tale Children's Book Award
* Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
작가인 Gary Paulsen의 뉴베리 수상작인 Hatchet과 Dogsong과 The Winter Room을 비롯해서 수많은 베스트셀러 청소년소설을 지은 현 시대 최고의 작가 중 한명입니다.
19세기 인디언 아파치족 소년인 코요테 런스는 포트 블리스 기병대와의 전투에서 총을 맞아 죽게 됩니다. 그리고 백여년이 지난 후, 코요테 런스가 죽었던 계곡에 캠핑을 왔던 15세 소년 브레넌은 코요테 런스의 유골을 발견하게 됩니다. 그 유골에 큰 흥미를 느낀 브레넌은 이 유골과 관계가 있었던 역사적인 사건들을 조사를 하게 되고 결국 이 유골의 주인공이 누군지 알게 됩니다. 1백여년이 넘는 시대를 건너 뛰어서 브레넌은 코요테 런스와 연결이 되었음을 느끼게 되고, 이 유골이 계곡 깊숙한 곳에 있는 고대 아파치족의 성지에 묻혀야만 코요테 런스의 영혼이 안식을 하게 될 것이라는 것을 깨닫게 됩니다. 브레넌은 유골을 아파치족의 성지로 돌려보내기 위해 위험을 무릅쓰고 거대한 협곡을 헤쳐나가는 모험의 길을 떠납니다..
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 0385742347
ISBN-13: 978-0385742344
책 크기: 19.3 cm x 13.2 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
Two boys, separated by the canyons of time and two vastly different cultures, face the challenges by which they will become men.
Coyote Runs, an Apache boy, takes part in his first raid. But he is to be a man for only a short time.
More than a hundred years later, while camping near Dog Canyon, 15-year-old Brennan Cole becomes obsessed with a skull that he finds, pierced by a bullet. He learns that it is the skull of an Apache boy executed by soldiers in 1864. A mystical link joins Brennan and Coyote Runs, and Brennan knows that neither boy will find peace until Coyote Runs' skull is carried back to an ancient sacred place.
In a grueling journey through the canyon to return the skull, Brennan confronts the challenge of his life.
Publishers Weekly
Brennan is a young loner of the type that will be instantly familiar to Paulsen fans. Coyote Runs is a 19th-century Apache boy who was murdered during the raid that was to mark his entry into manhood. The two boys' stories come together when Brennan unearths Coyote Runs's skull and grows obsessed with the Apache's history. A sort of psychic link is forged, and Brennan learns that Coyote Runs's spirit will have no rest until his skull is taken to a sacred spot in the canyons. Brennan therefore undertakes a grueling and unusual journey which serves as a modern-day coming-of-age ritual. Terse language keeps the story moving at a brisk pace. This novel is not as engrossing as Hatchet , nor is it likely to appeal to as wide an audience. However, readers with an appetite for Paulsen's blend of nature and mysticism will overlook Canyons 's predictable plot and find much to savor in its spirit.
School Library Journal
Cornered in a canyon during his first coming-of-age horse raid, a young Apache brave, Coyote Runs, is shot execution-style by soldiers from Fort Bliss. One hundred years later, Brennan Cole discovers a skull with a hole through its forehead in a canyon where he's been camping and becomes obsessed by the need to find out the who, what, and why of the skull. With the help of a pathologist, his high-school biology teacher, and someone from the Western Historical Archives in Denver, Brennan pieces the story together. The bond between the two boys, a century apart in time but so close in age and spirit, grows stronger as Brennan now searches for the final answer: why is Coyote Runs' spirit so restless, and what does it want of him? Brennan's realization that only when Coyote Runs' haunting and haunted soul is at peace will his own disturbed self find peace climaxes in his own coming-of-age challenge. Paulsen involves readers so deeply in the lives of both characters, telling the story in alternating chapters marked by the cadence and language distinctive to each boy and his time and place, that the whole becomes a compelling and dramatic experience that is powerful stuff. Although this is, at times, overwritten and affected--almost a parody of Hemingway--it will be new and unforgettable to today's readers. |
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