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The Girl with the Golden Shoes par Channer, Colin
by Channer, Colin | PB | Acceptable
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Acceptable
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781933354262
- Book Title
- Girl with the Golden Shoes
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Travel, Fiction
- Topic
- Caribbean & West Indies, Literary, Coming of Age, Historical
- Item Weight
- 13 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 170 Pages
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Akashic Books
ISBN-10
1933354267
ISBN-13
9781933354262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57212738
Product Key Features
Book Title
Girl with the Golden Shoes
Number of Pages
170 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Caribbean & West Indies, Literary, Coming of Age, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Fiction
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
The Girl with the Golden Shoes is literary magic of the best kind. Each new character, each new sentence is deceptively simple, imbued with the same astonishing possibility as the best folk tale. A sharp and relevant look at class and race, this book is one of the best I've read this year., Colin Channer continues to charm and surprise us. The Girl with the Golden Shoes takes us on a very moving and mesmerizing journey., Colin Channer is a graceful, natural storyteller with a keen eye and sharp ear. He effortlessly evokes the sense of a place and a people in strong yet subtle strokes. And Estrella is a magnificent heroine, a woman for her time. This is a captivating tale.
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
"This is a jewel of a book. Channer's language is dancing and juicy, his vision penetrating, and his hero is magnificent." -- Booklist , Starred Review "Channer is a gifted storyteller." -- Washington Post The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a dazzling and picaresque novella of equal parts Gabriel García Márquez, Mark Twain, and Bob Marley. Set in 1942, on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, it tells the story of Estrella Thompson, a 14-year-old who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life. Her crime? Wanting to read and write. But Estrella is no victim. Neither is she an ordinary child. Prematurely ripe in body and mind, and contemptuous of the boundaries placed on her by gender, race, and social class, she takes the villagers' rejection as a chance to change her life. She wants to go to Europe, the place where everything interesting seems to happen, including the war, which she's heard about incessantly on rediffusion radio. But she has to get money for a ticket on a steamer, which means she has to get a job--which means she has to get a pair of shoes . . . and she's never worn a pair in her life. Estrella's journey goes awry when she takes the wrong bus and ends up in a hostile town. From the one-armed madman who steals her belongings, to the lonely black truck driver who forces her to listen to his lecture on politics and race, to the Spanish Creole seducer who rides into her life on horseback, to the white soldiers who attempt to break her spirit--the characters that come into Estrella's life are as changed by her as she is by them. The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a deftly-written story that swims against the tide of cynicism that has come to dominate the best American fiction. Its propulsive plot is driven by a heroine who's too naive to back down and too smart to swap hope for disillusion as a central belief., Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life. Colin Channer's major works of fiction include the novel Waiting in Vain and the story collection Passing Through, which Junot D'az described as "a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora's finest writers." He also edited Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop (Akashic Books, 2006). Channer is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the BA creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York., Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life. Colin Channer 's major works of fiction include the novel Waiting in Vain and the story collection Passing Through, which Junot Díaz described as "a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora's finest writers." He also edited Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop (Akashic Books, 2006). Channer is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the BA creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York., Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life. Colin Channer 's major works of fiction include the novel Waiting in Vain and the story collection Passing Through, which Junot D az described as "a splendid collection by one of the Caribbean Diaspora's finest writers." He also edited Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop (Akashic Books, 2006). Channer is an assistant professor of English and the coordinator of the BA creative writing program at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York., A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica's top-selling writer. "This is a jewel of a book. Channer's language is dancing and juicy, his vision penetrating, and his hero is magnificent." -- Booklist , Starred Review "Channer is a gifted storyteller." -- Washington Post The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a dazzling and picaresque novella of equal parts Gabriel García Márquez, Mark Twain, and Bob Marley. Set in 1942, on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, it tells the story of Estrella Thompson, a 14-year-old who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life. Her crime? Wanting to read and write. But Estrella is no victim. Neither is she an ordinary child. Prematurely ripe in body and mind, and contemptuous of the boundaries placed on her by gender, race, and social class, she takes the villagers' rejection as a chance to change her life. She wants to go to Europe, the place where everything interesting seems to happen, including the war, which she's heard about incessantly on rediffusion radio. But she has to get money for a ticket on a steamer, which means she has to get a job--which means she has to get a pair of shoes . . . and she's never worn a pair in her life. Estrella's journey goes awry when she takes the wrong bus and ends up in a hostile town. From the one-armed madman who steals her belongings, to the lonely black truck driver who forces her to listen to his lecture on politics and race, to the Spanish Creole seducer who rides into her life on horseback, to the white soldiers who attempt to break her spirit--the characters that come into Estrella's life are as changed by her as she is by them. The Girl with the Golden Shoes is a deftly-written story that swims against the tide of cynicism that has come to dominate the best American fiction. Its propulsive plot is driven by a heroine who's too naive to back down and too smart to swap hope for disillusion as a central belief., A dazzling and picaresque novella - equal parts Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mark Twain and Bob Marley. Estrella, estranged for wanting to read and write, needs a job so she can buy a steamer ticket to Europe. And to get a job, she needs some shoes...
LC Classification Number
PS3553.H2735
Copyright Date
2007
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The book is in terrible condition. It had marks on every page- writing, highlighting, etc. it is not “used”, it is”terribly used”. Reading it will not be pleasant.
I would not have sold it it, but thrown it away.