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Bezig met laden... Who I'm Not (editie 2013)door Ted Staunton
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. After spending his early years shuffling between foster homes, 15-year-old Danny is sold to a con artist. He and Harley spend years on the road where he learns to lie, cheat, steal and scam others. Read the rest of my review on my blog: http://shouldireaditornot.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/who-im-not-ted-staunton/ ( ) In August 2008, The New Yorker published a true story by David Grann called “The Chameleon” about a twenty-year-old Frenchman, Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be a missing teen, Nicholas Barclay, in San Antonio, Texas. Despite Bourdin’s French accent and his lack of resemblance to Nicholas, the teen’s family welcomed him with open arms, raising questions about their involvement in Nicholas’ disappearance. This story inspired Ted Staunton to write Who I’m Not. In the book, a nameless and parentless teen has been taken on by a con man who uses him to further his schemes to steal money from unsuspecting people. At this time, the teen has been to so many foster homes and has been impersonating so many different people that he doesn’t remember his own name, let alone his birthday. When his mentor dies in an accident, he decides to impersonate Danny Dellomondo, a missing kid in Port Hope, Ontario. The book details how the teen manages to trick Danny’s family into believing the missing child is back. But by the end of Who I’m Not, you will be wondering who was conning whom. If it wasn’t based on a true story, I would have thought that the book was too far-fetched and would have dismissed it as too unbelievable. As it is, it turns out to be a fast-paced and highly entertaining story. However, I thought that Ted Staunton followed Frédéric Bourdin’s real life story a little bit too closely, and it somewhat spoiled the book for me. The ending is quite different from what happened in real life though, which is good. To read the full review, please go to my blog (Cecile Sune - Book Obsessed). "Danny" has been in foster care his whole life. He has become involved with a fraud artist, and participating in various schemes when he is picked up and brought back into "the system". Desperate for a way out, he steals the identity of a missing Ontario teenager and is reunited with his family. As Danny is 15, he is coming into adulthood with no sense of who he really is -- he doesn't know his real name or birthday. Danny's stage in life makes the common quest of figuring out who we are much more intriguing. Since Danny's family accept him on very little evidence, It's also a story of family, loyalty and wanting happy endings. Well done; good characters, thought-provoking ending. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. While it took me a while to get into this story, I ultimately enjoyed this book. The story of a young man who pretends to be a missing teen in order to avoid trouble with the police, this novel is inspired by a true story. There are a couple plot twists that the more skilled reading will see coming, but the story is still suspenseful. The main character "Danny" is well-developed and realistic, though I wanted to know more about his background and who he really was. I think teen readers, especially boys, will like this book. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. This book was well written and the characters were realistic. I am very character driven, and I never really connected with the protagonist. I felt bad for him in and think that he was given a crap hand in life, but I guess I want to believe in the goodness of people and the system, and I felt like Danny was cruel to this family making them believe he was their lost son/brother. And because he was written as a realistic teenager i didn't end up caring for him so much that i was able to over look the character flaws. Anyway I guess I read for escapism not realism. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Danny has survived everything life has thrown at him: being abandoned at birth, multiple abusive foster homes, life as a con man in training. But when his latest "protector" dies suddenly, Danny has to think fast or he'll be back in foster care again. He decides to assume the identity of a boy who disappeared three years before. If nothing else, he figures it will buy him a little time. Much to his astonishment, his new "family" accepts him as their ownâ??despite the fact that he looks nothing like their missing relative. But one old cop has his suspicions about Dannyâ??and he's not about to declare the case closed. Inspired by a true story, Who I'm Not is a powerful portrait of a boy whose identity is as fluid as a river and as changeable as a chameleon's skin Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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