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On the eve of her twelfth birthday, Cora convinces herself that the father she has never known is on his way to see her.
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On the eve of her twelfth birthday, Cora convinces herself that the father she has never known is on his way to see her.
评论 (8)
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5-7-- Cora, as she turns 12, is consumed with finding out about her father, who left for Greece to become a firewalker before she was born. Groping for an image of him, she presses her mother for information, while at night her dreams are tangled in Greek mythology and episodes of fruitless searching. When Cora's father does appear out of nowhere, she is stunned and disillusioned. Although her mother has always provided loving understanding and support, it is Charley, Cora's best and only friend, who makes the difference in helping her resolve her obsession with her father, as she comes to see her friend in a new light. The plot is a familiar one--fixation on a missing parent--but Cora's relentless pursuit is convincing. She is a troubled, original, thoroughly engaging protagonist. Charley, too, is appealing and Cora's mother is no stereotype. The characters are portrayed with humor and insight. However, the time sequencing is confusing, and some of the imagery is heavy handed or overwritten. Still, this is a thoughtful, absorbing story about a young girl who discovers that as one door closes another opens. --Phyllis G. Sidorsky, National Cathedral School, Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
A maze of madness, dreams and mythological characters pervades this story of 12-year-old Cora's growing need to meet her Greek father, who disappeared before she was born. Most of the characters in this sometimes beautiful, sometimes impenetrable tale have been knocked slightly off center by some tragedy in their lives--which tends to lead the plot to several dead ends. With the help of her eccentric friend Charley, Cora consults books, mystics and crazy people in the park to achieve her goal. In the process she learns enough about herself not to be destroyed when her father appears and is not the Greek god she expected. The emotional impact of Cora's search is often lost in densely packed though startlingly evocative imagery. Even so, her many abstract dreams and visions are enticing and powerful--and pertinent enough to allow the reader to follow the story through to its end. Ages 10-up. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Twelve-year-old Cora has grown up without her father - her mother has told her that he was 'a little crazy' - and feels incomplete without him. Struggling with the issue of her identity, she spends much of her time with offbeat street people she meets in the park. Geringer's prose is filled with imagery and depicts in simple language the complex emotions of her heroine. From HORN BOOK 1991, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
As she turns 12, Cora finds it increasingly hard to believe that her father, who returned to Greece before she was born, has never communicated with her. Suddenly, reading portents in the ramblings of the street people she and her best friend Charley like to interview, she's sure he's coming. Haunted by dreams in which her hopes are translated into variations on the myth of Europa; disturbed by finding her mother's letters to her father, plus one from him to Cora about which she was never told; discovering that Charley, whom she has always believed to be a straightforward fount of interesting facts, is also deeply distressed by the loss of his father (who died of a brain tumor)- -Cora's image of her father is already being transformed before he turns up in the book's last pages to complete the transformation with a disappointing reality. The events are sparse in this carefully structured, beautifully written story, but Cora's inner life is fascinating, rich with interconnected leitmotifs--jump-rope rhymes, angels and madmen, science and magic, ideas within ideas (such as the clairvoyant ``Lady Moon'' born with ``three veils''). It's a story that, like Paterson's Park's Quest (1988), makes a mother's pain at being abandoned comprehensible without losing focus on its effect on her child; meanwhile, Geringer creates a protagonist of integrity who is assimilating difficult facts about her past while becoming more sensitively attuned to her mother and closest friend. An unusually fine first novel. (Fiction. 10-14)
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 5-7-- Cora, as she turns 12, is consumed with finding out about her father, who left for Greece to become a firewalker before she was born. Groping for an image of him, she presses her mother for information, while at night her dreams are tangled in Greek mythology and episodes of fruitless searching. When Cora's father does appear out of nowhere, she is stunned and disillusioned. Although her mother has always provided loving understanding and support, it is Charley, Cora's best and only friend, who makes the difference in helping her resolve her obsession with her father, as she comes to see her friend in a new light. The plot is a familiar one--fixation on a missing parent--but Cora's relentless pursuit is convincing. She is a troubled, original, thoroughly engaging protagonist. Charley, too, is appealing and Cora's mother is no stereotype. The characters are portrayed with humor and insight. However, the time sequencing is confusing, and some of the imagery is heavy handed or overwritten. Still, this is a thoughtful, absorbing story about a young girl who discovers that as one door closes another opens. --Phyllis G. Sidorsky, National Cathedral School, Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
A maze of madness, dreams and mythological characters pervades this story of 12-year-old Cora's growing need to meet her Greek father, who disappeared before she was born. Most of the characters in this sometimes beautiful, sometimes impenetrable tale have been knocked slightly off center by some tragedy in their lives--which tends to lead the plot to several dead ends. With the help of her eccentric friend Charley, Cora consults books, mystics and crazy people in the park to achieve her goal. In the process she learns enough about herself not to be destroyed when her father appears and is not the Greek god she expected. The emotional impact of Cora's search is often lost in densely packed though startlingly evocative imagery. Even so, her many abstract dreams and visions are enticing and powerful--and pertinent enough to allow the reader to follow the story through to its end. Ages 10-up. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Twelve-year-old Cora has grown up without her father - her mother has told her that he was 'a little crazy' - and feels incomplete without him. Struggling with the issue of her identity, she spends much of her time with offbeat street people she meets in the park. Geringer's prose is filled with imagery and depicts in simple language the complex emotions of her heroine. From HORN BOOK 1991, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
As she turns 12, Cora finds it increasingly hard to believe that her father, who returned to Greece before she was born, has never communicated with her. Suddenly, reading portents in the ramblings of the street people she and her best friend Charley like to interview, she's sure he's coming. Haunted by dreams in which her hopes are translated into variations on the myth of Europa; disturbed by finding her mother's letters to her father, plus one from him to Cora about which she was never told; discovering that Charley, whom she has always believed to be a straightforward fount of interesting facts, is also deeply distressed by the loss of his father (who died of a brain tumor)- -Cora's image of her father is already being transformed before he turns up in the book's last pages to complete the transformation with a disappointing reality. The events are sparse in this carefully structured, beautifully written story, but Cora's inner life is fascinating, rich with interconnected leitmotifs--jump-rope rhymes, angels and madmen, science and magic, ideas within ideas (such as the clairvoyant ``Lady Moon'' born with ``three veils''). It's a story that, like Paterson's Park's Quest (1988), makes a mother's pain at being abandoned comprehensible without losing focus on its effect on her child; meanwhile, Geringer creates a protagonist of integrity who is assimilating difficult facts about her past while becoming more sensitively attuned to her mother and closest friend. An unusually fine first novel. (Fiction. 10-14)