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Mouthing the Words"Moving and comic at once. . . . Hallucinatory, hilarious, and haunting." Boston Globe By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It's a world in which she can escape some of her more painful childhood realities, like those games her father likes to make her play, where he's the boss and she the naughty secretary. And her mother so fiercely favors her
"Moving and comic at once. . . . Hallucinatory, hilarious, and haunting." -- Boston Globe By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It's a world in which she can escape some of her more painful childhood realities, like those games her father likes to make her play, where he's the boss and she the naughty secretary. And her mother so fiercely favors her younger brother, the cherubic Willy, that Thelma finds herself perpetually in emotional exile. No wonder Thelma asks practically every adult she meets to adopt her. Along Thelma's bumpy way from a rural English village to Canada to a law degree at Oxford, she meets many potential parents and even makes some friends, but it is with the companions of her fertile imagination -- with the scaredy-baby Janawee, moody and timid Ginniger, and big, strong, stoic Heroin -- that Thelma finds comfort. With them, too, she loses an already tenuous connection to reality, though ultimately Thelma's spirit and humor prove to be as indomitable as her wit. "Prickly, unsentimental. . .a portrait of terrible comic humanity." -- New York Times Book Review "Mesmerizing. . . . Lush, visceral prose . . . rings with an authority rarely found in first novels." -- Washington Post Book World "A novel of astonishing power . . . . An instantaneous classic." -- Baltimore Sun "Elegant . . . sings with an almost Victorian delicacy and sophistication." -- San Francisco ChronicleBinding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 02/20/2002
ISBN: 9780786709663
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.53w x 0.61d
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My young grandson loves these books. They are clever and interesting. We both like the illustrations.
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My grand daughter is enamoured with the character in the book Stick Dog, he and his friends are always hungry and work out plans as to how they are going to get something to eat. My grand daughter likes the way Stick Dog is the leader in a unobtrusive way, she reads part of a book on her kindle each night before going to sleep. I have purchased all the books of Stick Dog by this author for her because she wants to know what else he is up to next. Great reading for 10 year olds.
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