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[ 책 소개 ]
- A Newbery Medal Winner
- A New York Times Bestseller
- An ALA Notable Book
- An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
- A Booklist Best Book of the Year
- A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
아동문학상 중에서 최고의 권위를 자랑하는 뉴베리 메달을 수상한 명작소설입니다. 국내에서는 "일곱 번의 여름과 괴짜 할머니"라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간되었습니다.
이 책은 1929년 대공황이 미국을 휩쓸 때의 이야기입니다. 15세 소녀 메리가 대공황의 여파로 직장을 잃은 아빠를 떠나 괴팍한 성격의 할머니와 함께 보내게 되면서 벌어지는 여러 에피소드들이 유쾌하게 펼쳐집니다.
이 책에 등장하는 다우델 할머니는 남자처럼 우람한 체격에 무뚝뚝하고 괴팍스러운 성격, 남자들도 함부로 대하지 못하는 대담함을 지니고 있습니다. 또한 집 안에서 총을 쏘아 대고 폭죽을 터뜨릴 정도로 과격하기도 합니다. 한마디로 무슨 행동을 할지 아무도 예측할 수 없는 못 말리는 할머니입니다. 하지만 이 책을 읽다 보면 누구나 할머니를 사랑하지 않을 수 없게 됩니다. 이 책의 마지막 부분에서는 저절로 코끝이 찡해지며 손자에 대한 할머니의 사랑이 진한 감동으로 전해져 옵니다.
이 책의 저자인 리처드 펙은 사람들이 암울했던 대공황 시절 동안 어떻게 절망을 희망으로 바꾸어 나갔는지 잘 묘사하고 있습니다. 괴팍스런 다우델 할머니라는 인물을 창조해 냄으로써 절망과 고통으로 가득했던 시기를 아이들이 재미있는 이야기를 통해 자연스럽게 이해하고 경험하게 만듭니다. 특히 7년 동안 여름 방학마다 아이들이 할머니 집에 방문하면서 해마다 성장해 가는 모습을 이야기 속에 잘 녹여 내어 책장을 넘길 때마다 잔잔한 울림을 줍니다.
할머니는 겉으로는 괴팍해 보이지만, 속으로는 사춘기를 맞은 손녀에게 조건없는 사랑으로 소중한 삶의 교훈을 주는 따뜻한 분입니다. 시골에서 벌어지는 유쾌한 에피소드들을 중심으로 펼쳐지는 흥미진진한 이야기를 큰 소리로 웃으며 읽을 수 있는 재미있는 책입니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 160 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0142300701
ISBN-10: 0142300705
책 크기: 19.5 cm x 12.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. But now she is fifteen, and faces a whole long year with Grandma, a woman well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else! All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. This wry, delightful sequel to the Newbery Honor Book A Long Way from Chicago has already taken its place among the classics of children's literature.
Publishers Weekly
In this Newbery Honor book, Chicago-bred Mary Alice has been sentenced to a year-long stay in rural Illinois with her irrepressible, rough and gruff grandmother. Soon, however, she becomes Grandma's partner in crime, helping to carry out madcap schemes to benefit friends and avenge enemies. In a starred review, PW called this sequel to A Long Way to Chicago "hilarious and poignant."
School Library Journal
Peck charms readers once again with this entertaining sequel to A Long Way from Chicago (Dial, 1998). This time, 15-year-old Mary Alice visits Grandma Dowdel alone for a one-year stay, while her parents struggle through the recession of 1937 looking for jobs and better housing. With her older brother, Joey, working out west in a government program, Mary Alice takes a turn at recounting memorable and pivotal moments of her year with Grandma. Beneath the woman's fierce independence and nonconformity, Mary Alice discovers compassion, humor, and intuition. She watches her grandmother exact the perfect revenge on a classmate who bullies her on the first day of school, and she witnesses her "shameless" tactics to solicit donations from Veteran's Day "burgoo" eaters whose contributions are given to Mrs. Abernathy's blind, paralyzed, war-veteran son. From her energetic, eccentric, but devoted Grandma, she learns not only how to cook but also how to deal honestly and fairly with people. At story's end, Mary Alice returns several years later to wed the soldier, Royce McNabb, who was her classmate during the year spent with Grandma. Again, Peck has created a delightful, insightful tale that resounds with a storyteller's wit, humor, and vivid description. Mary Alice's memories capture the atmosphere, attitudes, and lifestyle of the times while shedding light on human strengths and weak- nesses.
Booklist
With the same combination of wit, gentleness, and outrageous farce as Peck's Newbery Honor book, Long Way from Chicago (1998), this sequel tells the story of Joey's younger sister, Mary Alice, 15, who spends the year of 1937 back with Grandma Dowdel in a small town in Illinois. It's still the Depression; Dad has lost his job, and Mary Alice has been sent from Chicago to live with Grandma and enroll in the "hick-town's" 25-student high school. As in the first book, much of the fun comes from the larger-than-life characters, whether it's the snobbish DAR ladies or the visiting WPA artist, who paints a nude picture of the postmistress (nude , not naked ; he studied in Paris). The wry one-liners and tall tales are usually Grandma's ("When I was a girl, we had to walk in our sleep to keep from freezing to death"), or Mary Alice's commentary as she looks back ("Everybody in this town knew everything about you. They knew things that hadn't even happened yet"). That adult perspective is occasionally intrusive and Mary Alice sometimes seems younger than 15, though her awkward romance with a classmate is timeless. The heart of the book is Grandma--huge and overbearing, totally outside polite society. Just as powerful is what's hidden: Mary Alice discovers kindness and grace as well as snakes in the attic. Most moving is Mary Alice's own growth. During a tornado she leaves her shelter to make sure that Grandma is safe at home. In fact, as Mary Alice looks back, it's clear that Grandma has remained her role model, never more generous than when she helped her granddaughter leave. |
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