Casebook
Autor Mona Simpsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2015
An "Oprah."com Best book of the Year
Nine-year-old Miles Adler-Hart's mother, "the Mims," is "pretty for a mathematician." Miles and his best friend Hector are in thrall to her. When her marriage starts to unravel, the boys begin spying on her to find out why. They rifle through her dresser drawers, bug her telephone lines, and strip-mine her computer. Ultimately, what they find will affect the family's prosperity--and sanity.
Burdened with such powerful information, the boys struggle to deal with the existence of evil, and proceed to concoct hilarious modes of revenge on their villains. "Casebook" brilliantly reveals an American family coming apart at the seams and, simultaneously, reconstituting itself to sustain its members through their ultimate trial.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780345807281
ISBN-10: 0345807286
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 132 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
ISBN-10: 0345807286
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 132 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing
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When an eavesdropping boy sets out to discover the obscure mysteries of his unravelling family, he uncovers instead what he least wants to know: the workings of his parents’ private lives. And even then he can't stop snooping.
Miles Adler-Rich spies and listens in on his separating parents with the help of his friend Hector. The boys’ amateur detective work starts innocently enough. But in rifling through his mother’s dresser and snooping in her online diary, it isn’t long before they stumble into the outer reaches of the grown-up’s privacy – uncovering powerful information that will affect the family’s health, wealth and sanity.
Written with pathos and brilliant imagination, Casebook is an unflinching and very different coming-of-age story from one of America’s most gifted chroniclers of modern family life.
When an eavesdropping boy sets out to discover the obscure mysteries of his unravelling family, he uncovers instead what he least wants to know: the workings of his parents’ private lives. And even then he can't stop snooping.
Miles Adler-Rich spies and listens in on his separating parents with the help of his friend Hector. The boys’ amateur detective work starts innocently enough. But in rifling through his mother’s dresser and snooping in her online diary, it isn’t long before they stumble into the outer reaches of the grown-up’s privacy – uncovering powerful information that will affect the family’s health, wealth and sanity.
Written with pathos and brilliant imagination, Casebook is an unflinching and very different coming-of-age story from one of America’s most gifted chroniclers of modern family life.
Recenzii
There's warm humour and deep feeling in [Casebook's] portrayal of the vulnerability and messiness of family life.
Simpson's beautifully crafted novel shows us a reconfigured California family through the eyes of a smart, funny adolescent longing to keep hope alive.
The captivating voice in Mona Simpson’s sixth novel belongs to Miles, 9, who has begun to spy on his parents . . . From beginning to end, it’s clear that in everything he does, Miles loves his mother. His indisputable, powerful, and consistent filial love gives Casebook enormous emotional power and makes the surprise ending a heart-breaker.
Casebook is both a detective story and a coming-of-age novel - a hybrid of Harriet the Spy and Chandler's Phillip Marlow books.
The story captivates . . . Casebook is a sort of cross between The Catcher in the Rye and Harriet the Spy. But it is very much its own book, singular and haunting.
Utterly infectious.
Delightful comic moments, and a surprising and poignant twist at the end.
Wonderful … A compelling portrait of a quirky boy and his muddled family…. A funny and sad drama about intimacies, deception and growing up.
Simpson's beautifully crafted novel shows us a reconfigured California family through the eyes of a smart, funny adolescent longing to keep hope alive.
The captivating voice in Mona Simpson’s sixth novel belongs to Miles, 9, who has begun to spy on his parents . . . From beginning to end, it’s clear that in everything he does, Miles loves his mother. His indisputable, powerful, and consistent filial love gives Casebook enormous emotional power and makes the surprise ending a heart-breaker.
Casebook is both a detective story and a coming-of-age novel - a hybrid of Harriet the Spy and Chandler's Phillip Marlow books.
The story captivates . . . Casebook is a sort of cross between The Catcher in the Rye and Harriet the Spy. But it is very much its own book, singular and haunting.
Utterly infectious.
Delightful comic moments, and a surprising and poignant twist at the end.
Wonderful … A compelling portrait of a quirky boy and his muddled family…. A funny and sad drama about intimacies, deception and growing up.