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[ 책 소개 ]
* National Book Award Finalist
* Printz Award Honor 수상작
* An Edgar Allan Poe Award 수상작
* Los Angeles Times Book Prize 수상작
* Golden Kite Award 수상작
* An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
* An ALA Quick Pick
* New York Public Library, Books for the Teen Age Winner
* Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
* Booklist Top Ten First Novel of the Year
* Booklist Editors' Choice
* A BCCB Blue Ribbon Award 수상작
* School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
* Horn Book Fanfare Title
* California Young Reader Medal 수상작
* Kentucky Blue Grass Award 수상작
* PA Carolyn W. Field Award 수상작
* A New York Times Bestseller
* A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
고등학교 1학년생인 멜린다는 언제부터인가 말을 하지 않습니다. 말을 하려고 하면 더듬거리거나, 목소리가 알아들을 수 없을 정도로 기어들어갔어요. 주위에서는 멜린다가 말을 하지 못하게 된 이유가 아마도 지난 여름 파티에서 멜린다가 경찰을 부른 후 친구에게서 따돌림을 받았기 때문일 것이라고도 하고, 어떤 사람은 멜린다 부모가 밤늦게 일을 하기 때문에 메모로만 대화를 한 결과일 것이라도 했어요. 하지만 멜린다가 말을 하지 못하는 이유를 멜린다 자신은 정확히 알고 있었지요. 바로 지난 여름 파티에서 선배로부터 성폭행을 당했기 때문입니다. 멜린다는 이 사실을 생각도 하기 싫었던 것입니다. 하지만 진실을 밝혀야 한다는 목소리는 멜린다의 마음속에서 점점 더 커지고... 책의 후반부에서 멜린다의 용기있는 행동과 침묵을 깨트리는 커다란 목소리가 많은 독자들을 눈물로 감동시키는 청소년 문학의 명작입니다.
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Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 0312674392
ISBN-13: 978-0312674397
책 크기 : 20.8 cm x 13.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself - we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows that this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In this powerful novel, an utterly believeable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.
Publishers Weekly
In a stunning first novel, Anderson uses keen observations and vivid imagery to pull readers into the head of an isolated teenager. Divided into the four marking periods of an academic year, the novel, narrated by Melinda Sordino, begins on her first day as a high school freshman. No one will sit with Melinda on the bus. At school, students call her names and harass her; her best friends from junior high scatter to different cliques and abandon her. Yet Anderson infuses the narrative with a wit that sustains the heroine through her pain and holds readers' empathy. A girl at a school pep rally offers an explanation of the heroine's pariah status when she confronts Melinda about calling the police at a summer party, resulting in several arrests. But readers do not learn why Melinda made the call until much later: a popular senior raped her that night and, because of her trauma, she barely speaks at all. Only through her work in art class, and with the support of a compassionate teacher there, does she begin to reach out to others and eventually find her voice. Through the first-person narration, the author makes Melinda's pain palpable: "I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special." Though the symbolism is sometimes heavy-handed, it is effective. The ending, in which her attacker comes after her once more, is the only part of the plot that feels forced. But the book's overall gritty realism and Melinda's hard-won metamorphosis will leave readers touched and inspired.
School Library Journal
This powerful novel deals with a difficult yet important topic-rape. Melinda is just starting high school. It should be one of the greatest times in her life, but instead of enjoying herself, she is an outcast. She has been marked as the girl who called the police to break up the big end-of-the-summer party, and all the kids are angry at her. Even her closest friends have pulled away. No one knows why she made the call, and even Melinda can't really articulate what happened. As the school year goes on, her grades plummet and she withdraws into herself to the point that she's barely speaking. Her only refuge is her art class, where she learns to find ways to express some of her feelings. As her freshman year comes to an end, Melinda finally comes to terms with what happened to her-she was raped at that party by an upperclassman who is still taunting her at school. When he tries again, she finds her voice, and her classmates realize the truth. The healing process will take time, but Melinda no longer has to deal with it alone. Anderson expresses the emotions and the struggles of teenagers perfectly. Melinda's pain is palpable, and readers will totally empathize with her. This is a compelling book, with sharp, crisp writing that draws readers in, engulfing them in the story.
Library Journal
A ninth grader becomes a social pariah when she calls the police to bust a summer bash and spends the year coming to terms with the secret fact that she was raped during the party. A story told with acute insight, acid wit, and affecting prose.
Booklist
Having broken up an end-of-summer party by calling the police, high-school freshman Melinda Sordino begins the school year as a social outcast. She's the only person who knows the real reason behind her call: she was raped at the party by Andy Evans, a popular senior at her school. Slowly, with the help of an eccentric and understanding art teacher, she begins to recover from the trauma, only to find Andy threatening her again. Melinda's voice is distinct, unusual, and very real as she recounts her past and present experiences in bitterly ironic, occasionally even amusing vignettes. In her YA fiction debut, Anderson perfectly captures the harsh conformity of high-school cliques and one teen's struggle to find acceptance from her peers. Melinda's sarcastic wit, honesty, and courage make her a memorable character whose ultimate triumph will inspire and empower readers.
Kirkus Reviews
A frightening and sobering look at the cruelty and viciousness that pervade much of contemporary high school life, as real as today's headlines. At the end of the summer before she enters high school, Melinda attends a party at which two bad things happen to her. She gets drunk, and she is raped. Shocked and scared, she calls the police, who break up the party and send everyone home. She tells no one of her rape, and the other students, even her best friends, turn against her for ruining their good time. By the time school starts, she is completely alone, and utterly desolate. She withdraws more and more into herself, rarely talking, cutting classes, ignoring assignments, and becoming more estranged daily from the world around her. Few people penetrate her shell; one of them is Mr. Freeman, her art teacher, who works with her to help her express what she has so deeply repressed. When the unthinkable happensthe same upperclassman who raped her at the party attacks her againsomething within the new Melinda says no, and in repelling her attacker, she becomes whole again. The plot is gripping and the characters are powerfully drawn, but it is its raw and unvarnished look at the dynamics of the high school experience that makes this a novel that will be hard for readers to forget. |
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