Phoenix Rising - 9780805031089
Un libro in lingua di Karen Hesse edito da Henry Holt & Co, 1994
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Nyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust.
Nyle adjusts to the changes. As long as the fallout continues blowing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart of the accident, who take temporary shelter in the back bedroom of Nyle's house.
The back bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother when Nyle was six; it stole away her grandfather just two years ago. Now Ezra is back there and Nyle doesn't want to open her heart to him. Too many times she's let people in, only to have them desert her.
Karen Hesse's voice and vision are grounded in truth; she takes on a nearly unharnessable subject, contains it, and makes it resonate with honesty. Part love story, part coming of age, this is a tour de force by a gifted writer.
Nyle adjusts to the changes. As long as the fallout continues blowing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart of the accident, who take temporary shelter in the back bedroom of Nyle's house.
The back bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother when Nyle was six; it stole away her grandfather just two years ago. Now Ezra is back there and Nyle doesn't want to open her heart to him. Too many times she's let people in, only to have them desert her.
Karen Hesse's voice and vision are grounded in truth; she takes on a nearly unharnessable subject, contains it, and makes it resonate with honesty. Part love story, part coming of age, this is a tour de force by a gifted writer.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Phoenix Rising
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Karen Hesse
- Editore: Henry Holt & Co
- Collana: Henry Holt & Co (School And Library)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Giugno '94
- Genere: JUVENILE FICTION
- Argomenti : Nuclear power plants Accidents Fiction Death Fiction Friendship Fiction
- Pagine: 182
- Peso gr: 362
- Dimensioni mm: 222 x 152 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0805031081
- EAN-13: 9780805031089