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Bezig met laden... Trampoline: An Illustrated Noveldoor Robert Gipe, Robert Gipe
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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. There are the books you like, and the books you love, and then there are the ones you want to hold to your heart for a minute after you turn the last page. Trampoline is one of those—not just well written, which it is; and not just visually appealing, which the wonderfully deadpan black-and-white drawings make sure of; but there is something deeply lovable about it, an undertow of affection you couldn’t fight if you wanted to. Or I couldn’t, anyway. Coming-of-age stories are supposed to do that, aren’t they?—make you love their young heroes or heroines, no matter how difficult they might be. And most, I find, don’t. But Gipe has done it with 15-year-old Dawn Jewell, growing up at the end of the '90s in a poor Kentucky mining town with a sprawling (in more ways than one) dysfunctional family, as well as loyal and not-so-loyal friends, drugs and moonshine, strip mining activism, car wrecks, Black Flag on the radio, and a sympathetic DJ. And Gipe deftly avoids every single cliché that could trip such a story up, which includes having a pitch-perfect ear for dialect and making it into something marvelous. There are arrests, fights, bad reputations—"When they showed up, it was like it started raining washing machines. Things got broke."—and fierce scraps of beauty pulled from anywhere Dawn can find them. Trampoline is a wonder. It’s not out until April, but you can catch a couple of chapters on the publisher’s website. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Dawn Jewell is fifteen. She is restless, curious, and wry. She listens to Black Flag, speaks her mind, and joins her grandmother's fight against mountaintop removal mining almost in spite of herself. "I write by ear," says Robert Gipe, and Dawn's voice is the essence of his debut novel, Trampoline. She lives in eastern Kentucky with her addict mother and her Mamaw, whose stance against the coal companies has earned her the community's ire. Jagged and honest, Trampoline is a powerful portrait of a place struggling with the economic and social forces that threaten and define it. Inspired by ora Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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As with every great American coming-of-age tale, we join Dawn just as she is making the choices that will determine the course of her life. Will she become an activist like her Mamaw or choose the self-preservation of silence? Will she be courageous enough to let a boy into her life? Will she choose education over crime and controlled substances? Will she get out of Kentucky or will she stay?
Gipe's treatment of Dawn's first love with Willet, the DJ, is phenomenal: it is disappointing and realistic and deeply moving all at once. "Baby Steps" is a sensible rule for any relationship when you've been through as much trauma as Dawn has, and Willet is mellow and respectful enough to understand.
I loved it when Dawn matured enough to understand that the environmentalists and miners are all one big family, all loving the mountains, all struggling to survive and preserve their home and way of life. This is why there are no easy answers to the issues surrounding coal, and why there never will be any easy answers. ( )