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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Action and adventure fiction Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lucy Jane Bledsoe |
ISBN: | 9780823443635 0823443639 9780823447497 0823447499 |
OCLC Number: | 1082295723 |
Description: | 195 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Lucy Jane Bledsoe. |
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Insightful psychology, problematic survival strategy
This book was well written as far as prose and psychology is concerned. It evokes the pain of living in a dysfunctional situation that is both miserable and at comfortably familiar. It is a truth universally...
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This book was well written as far as prose and psychology is concerned. It evokes the pain of living in a dysfunctional situation that is both miserable and at comfortably familiar. It is a truth universally acknowledged that, especially for children, abusive relationships are very difficult to leave and very easy to return to. The way that each child interacts with the father; one as the helper, the other as the rebel, and third as the mirror, shows some insight and has a great deal of unflinching verisimilitude.
If the story were set in California I’d give it five stars.
The “Alaskan Adventures” genre falls into two pretty sharp categories. The first are those who speak from experience: Kirkpatrick Hill, Tom Bodett, Jack London, and Gary Paulsen did their time, lived the life, and put in the work. They made dumb mistakes and survived them (often with scars), knew the people, and respected the land. This gives their stories a ring of truth and doesn't equivocate about the stakes of failure or stupidity.
What they didn’t do is make some academic contacts, pay for a guided “wilderness experience” then appropriate an entire way of life into an imagined metaphysical journey. This second group grates on the nerves of those of us who live here.
Normally I would let it go. It’s fiction, and I try to be lenient with a well-written story. But every year in Alaska we get at least one dead idiot who has read “survival stories” written by armchair adventurers. They think that they can get away with the stupid stuff they read about. The reality is that anyone who did what these characters did would be dead a dozen times over.
A universal plea to all authors: please stop writing stories about successfully surviving truly asinine decisions with no ramifications. It's irresponsible. Have a real outdoorsperson read your work after you've written it and get feedback.
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