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[ 책 소개 ]
* National Book Awards Winner
* American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
* Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year
* New York Public Library, Books for the Teen Age
* Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List
* Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice
* Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
* School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
Newbery 수상작인 Everything on a Waffle을 비롯해서 다수의 베스트셀러를 출간한 여류작가 Polly Horvath의 대표작 중 하나입니다.
어느 여름날, 미국 남부 플로리다의 펜사콜라에 있는 아파트를 떠나 멀리 북쪽의 메인주에 사는 먼 친척인 펜펜과 틸리 쌍둥이 할머니가 사는 곳으로 보내진 렛쳇의 색다른 여름나기 이야기입니다. 자식을 별로 돌보지 않는 엄마가 렛쳇을 기차에 태워서 메인주의 쌍둥이 할머니 집으로 보내버립니다. 그곳은 너무나도 외지고 심지어 곰들도 자주 출몰하는 곳이지요. 야생 블루베리를 따서 통조림을 만드는 일을 하는, 괴팍스럽고 괴기해 보이기까지 하는 할머니들과 렛쳇이 함께 살아가면서 벌어지는 유머러스한 이야기가 흥미진진하게 펼쳐집니다.
[서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0374410429
ISBN-13: 978-0374410421
책 크기: 19.2 cm x 13 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable twins who couldn't look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she has never experienced before. Also, Penpen has recently espoused a new philosophy - whatever shows up on your doorstep you have to let in. Through thick wilderness, down forgotten, bear-ridden roads, come a variety of characters, drawn to Penpen and Tilly's open door. It is with vast reservations that the cautious Tilly allows these unwelcome guests in. But it turns out that unwelcome guests may bring the greatest gifts.
By turns dark and humorous, Polly Horvath offers adolescent readers enough quirky characters and outrageous situations to leave them reeling!
From School Library Journal
Horvath outdoes herself in this tale of lonely, friendless Ratchet Clark, who lives with her uncaring mother in Pensacola, FL. One night, out of the blue, Henriette packs her daughter onto the train to spend the summer with two elderly relatives, twins Tilly and Penpen, who live in an area of Maine so remote that servant-eating bears are a constant menace. Here, with her outlandishly eccentric great-aunts, Ratchet hears gruesome yet darkly humorous stories of family lore while experiencing, for the first time, some love and care. Harper, another parentless girl, soon joins Ratchet. The approaching canning season becomes not only a metaphor for that moment in each life when everything is ripe, but also provides Ratchet with the self-confidence found in working with others and with a means to support herself. Offbeat, slapstick humor is mitigated by poignancy in Horvath's distinctive rollicking style. There is occasional use of strong language, and the family stories are woven with death, often gruesomely described. Parents take a big hit in this novel, leaving Ratchet and readers with the message that one finds happiness and peace in oneself. The Canning Season, like Horvath's Everything on a Waffle (Farrar, 2001), reads like a tall tale with fantastic and realistic elements interwoven. And, as in a tall tale, Ratchet, Tilly, and Penpen become larger than life and unforgettable. Readers are in for a wise and wacky ride when they open this novel.
From Booklist
Horvath's 2002 Newbery Honor Book had a sprightly title, Everything on a Waffle. This title is more mundane, but both books follow the pattern Horvath set in The Trolls (1999): a young person is in some sense orphaned and put in the care of an older relative with stories to spin. Here the girl is 13-year-old Ratchet, who is sent by her boorish mother to the wilds of Maine, where Ratchet's twin great aunts, Tilly and Penpen, live in splendid isolation, gardening, fending off bears, and reminiscing about the old days, like the time Penpen tripped over her mother's head (the depressed woman had managed to chop it off). But this is more the aunts' story than Ratchet's; the girl is primarily a "talk-to" character until another unwanted teen, Harper, arrives. The girls are the filler in a sandwich that is both dark and wry, with most of the pages taken up by the problems of various adults. Will the intended audience appreciate the truths and idiosyncrasies contained in the tales of the two sisters? Horvath is a winning writer, luxurious in her descriptions, so perhaps she can overcome the problem of audience appeal. A caveat: the term "little fucks" is used at one point; otherwise, the language is sometimes salty but not vulgar. |
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