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Cappy, who lives on the American frontier in the 1870s, must fight for the people he loves, including an Indian woman from the Mandan tribe.
评论 (5)
《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 7 UpDespite its somewhat anticlimactic climax and a perhaps too-close adherence to the norms of frontier fiction, this novel is an involving read. Cappy, 12, is caught spying on a frontier artist as he paints a nude of his Mandan Indian wife, Two Songs. After the artist is murdered by a Sioux warrior, Cappy and his friend Alice accompany the young woman back to her people. Information about daily life and attitudes in a small Great Plains settlement in the 1870s is seamlessly woven into the plot. Readers see Cappy's embarrassment as a local man tells the boy he's more interested in Alice because "she's gittin' titties," and share Cappy and Alice's shock when some of the townspeople turn against the just-widowed Two Songs, claiming that her presence makes them susceptible to Sioux attack. The supporting characters are vividly drawn, but the novel centers around Cappy and Alice, who alternate as narrators and whose personalities shimmer off the page. Cappy's crush on Two Songs is tender and romantic, and even those incidents that might be considered controversial in isolationsuch as a boy's attempt to drag Two Songs out of the swimming hole where she and the other girls are skinny-dippingare, in context, not unexpected aspects of a more casually sexist and violent time. As historically redolent as the novels of G. Clifton Wisler, Goodbye, Buffalo Sky should entice readers, both for its effortless narration and its incorporation of two viewpoints.Coop Renner, Coldwell Elementary-Intermediate School, El Paso, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
British poet Loveday's (Halo) first YA novel, about a white orphan boy who comes of age in the American West in the late 1800s, is awkward and confusing. Young Cappy Carew's life changes when he witnesses the murder of his mentor, Burkhart, by a Sioux Indian. The Sioux, who was jealous of Burkhart's marriage to Two Songs, a beautiful Mandan girl, continues to pursue the widow. The novel follows Cappy and his friend Alice's adventures en route to returning Two Songs to her tribe, but Loveday clutters his plot with a series of unconnected and fragmented events. For example, in the last third of the novel, he introduces minor characters whose primary purpose is to kill off the villain and rescue the girls (Saucepan, a kind of traveling salesman, joins the rescue party, and an unnamed dying man strikes the villain with an arrow). Adding to the confusion is the random and interchangeable first-person narration by Cappy and Alice, which most readers may only recognize by consulting the running heads. Instead of using the format to fill in the gaps, Loveday omits key details. Specifically, Cappy's orphan background, his relation to his caregiver Bessie and his role in the boarding house he calls home are never made clear. An abrupt ending that fails to follow through on the relationships Alice and Cappy forge throughout their adventures brings this unsatisfying novel to a close. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
When his friend is killed by a Sioux for having married an Indian woman, young Cappy sets off to return the widow to her tribe. The serious novel is about the often uneasy relationships between white settlers and different Indian tribes. Characters are poorly developed, the dual narration by Cappy and his friend Alice is confusing, and the book has a design more suited to middle-grade readers. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
A beautiful Mandan slave married to a white painter is widowed, harassed, and driven out of town in this crude, overstuffed, stunningly insensitive western. After Long Shadow, a menacing former suitor, tracks her to the small pioneer town of Buffalo Sky and kills her husband, Two Songs moves into Mama Eldo's boarding house and then escapes to her Sioux encampment following Long Shadow's sporadic fire-arrow attacks, local residents' open hostility, and an attempted rape. Her young companions, Cappy and Alice, narrate in alternating passages, which are fortunately labeled, since there is no perceptible difference in their voices. While watching such rustic amusements as a man who bites off rat tails, Alice and Two Songs are kidnapped by Long Shadow, but escape when he is, quite by chance, killed. When the travelers arrive at the camp, the chief feeds them his favorite dog, offers them whiskey, and, conveniently, invites the former slave to stay as his wives' guest. Cappy and Alice make their way back to Buffalo Sky, only to find it burned by raiders, its survivors fled--an abrupt ending that leaves the main story and several subplots dangling. Loveday wavers between a serious and a comic tone in his loosely plotted tale, thereby trivializing much of Two Songs' experience with farcical elements. (Fiction. 11-13)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 5^-8. Loveday's engaging story of the Great Plains in the 1870s is filled with the same kind of quirky characters that populate adult novels about the West. Two young people alternate in telling the story: orphaned 12-year-old Cappy, left in Buffalo Sky in the care of Bessie, a "giver of comfort with a heart of gold"; and headstrong 13-year-old Alice, who is ripe for adventure. Other characters include a beautiful Mandan girl, Two Songs, who was stolen from her people; an army deserter hiding out in Buffalo Sky; and Long Shadow, a vengeance-seeking Sioux warrior who wants Two Songs back. After the murder of her husband, Two Songs tries to return to her tribe, and Cappy and Alice attempt to protect her. When Long Shadow kidnaps the two young women, the adventure turns deadly serious. Readers will enjoy the action, but what they will remember most are Loveday's drifters and settlers searching for adventure and his bittersweet view of life in early frontier towns. --Chris Sherman