Daily class discussions about contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for Eric "Moby" Calhoune's attempt to answer his best friend Sarah's dramatic cry for help in dealing with a horrific event in her past.
Chris Crutcher Ordre des livres (chronologique)
17 juillet 1946
L'écriture de Chris Crutcher est souvent controversée et a fait l'objet de contestations et d'interdictions pour son exploration franche de la vie des adolescents. Ses récits se concentrent sur des adolescents confrontés à des problèmes graves tels que la violence parentale, les préjugés raciaux et religieux, les handicaps et la pauvreté, des sujets que certains jugent trop matures pour les jeunes lecteurs. L'utilisation d'un langage fort et les représentations de l'homosexualité sont également des raisons invoquées pour la censure. Malgré ces controverses, l'œuvre percutante et primée de Crutcher est célébrée pour son honnêteté sans fard et sa représentation authentique de l'expérience adolescente.
Laurel-Leaf Books: Chinese Handcuffs
- 224pages
- 8 heures de lecture
When Dillon Hemingway is forced to witness his brother Preston's suicide, his life understandably seems to fall apart. His quest to make it whole again involves Stacy Ryder, Preston's girlfriend, who is left with more than a memeory of Dillon's dead brother, and Jennifer Lawless, a star high school basketball player with a secret too monstrous to tell and too enormous to keep. His antagonist are a vicious cycling gang, a single-minded school principal, and Jennifer's father, a brilliant lawyer with a chilling disregard for human sensitivity. Chris Crutcher's Chinese Handcuffs is a story about a time when life seems too overwhelming to confront. It is also a story of courage and acceptance, told with power and sensibility.