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The author shares a poignant memoir of a childhood romance in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, wherein she discovers the contours of love while also exploring the limitations of possession and the structure of emotional pain. Original.
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"[Benson] endeavors to purge her pain via poetic expression, intimately exploring the nature of desire." Elle
"[Her] poetic memoir...built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have...." USA Today
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"Startling insight and precision...a potent meditation on love, summer, youth, and how the three intertwine." Body&Soul
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"[Her] poetic memoir...built on dreams and memories of what never happened, but could have...." USA Today
"A provocative, intense read." Booklist, ALA
"Startling insight and precision...a potent meditation on love, summer, youth, and how the three intertwine." Body&Soul
In Benson's hands, the theme of summer love grows up into a fiercely observed memoir, one that searches out the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire.
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- EditoreMariner Books
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 061843321X
- ISBN 13 9780618433216
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine192
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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. The SparklingEyed Boy is so full of color and light and life Brad Land author of GoatThe theme of summer love in Amy Bensons hands grows up The SparklingEyed Boy searches out the fault lines of adult nostalgia and desire The achingly intense adolescent summer days that Amy Benson and the sparklingeyed boy spend together on the remote shores of the St Marys River of Michigans Upper Peninsula are at the complex emotional center of The SparklingEyed Boy For her summers meant returning from her home in Detroit to a threemonth idyll on muchloved family land owned for generations and to a heady culture of teasing testing local boys For him this land is the place he was born where hell later find work marry and stay and she was the one he had lovedCan you pinpoint that moment When you made a choice before you even knew that choosing was possible or the terrifying nature of choices The SparklingEyed Boy with its heartstoppingly erotic and yet wholly imagined scenes of illicit love its searching riffs on love as possession love as pain reads like a friends deepest secrets sharedThe SparklingEyed Boy is so full of color and light and life This is truth of the most profound sort truth revealed in the artful and lyrical sensibility of Bensons words and memory She is dancing with us not leading but simply asking us to watch her move and take what we will Benson shows us here what the memoir can and should do destroy and resurrect itself over and over Benson is doing exactly that Brad Land author of GoatThe great pleasure and triumph of this memoir is Amy Bensons ability to make the familiar new again as she explores the country of first love Over and over I found myself surprised by the unexpected twists and turns peaks and abysses of her journey And also by her lovely fiercely intelligent prose Margot Livesey author of Criminals. Codice articolo DADAX061843321X
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