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| Original Title: | Jasper Jones |
| ISBN: | 1742372627 (ISBN13: 9781742372624) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Australia |
| Literary Awards: | Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2010), Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction (2009), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2012), Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nominee for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2010), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2013) Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Book of the Year & Book of the Year Fiction (2009), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Literary Fiction and for Book of the Year (2010), UC Book of the Year (2013), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011) |
Craig Silvey
Paperback | Pages: 397 pages Rating: 4.08 | 24770 Users | 2528 Reviews
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| Title | : | Jasper Jones |
| Author | : | Craig Silvey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 397 pages |
| Published | : | 2010 by Allen & Unwin (first published March 31st 2009) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction |
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Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan.Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.
With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.
And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse.
In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
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Ratings: 4.08 From 24770 Users | 2528 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Jasper Jones
Yet again, a possible good book ruined by the fact I was forced to study it for school. I swear, if you read a book for a school it takes all the fun out of it. I see this book everywhere and it fills with the rage of 10 million firey storms.5★At the end of this book, the author thanked, among others, librarians and booksellers who never get the credit they deserve for supporting books. I would like to thank the librarians of the Goodreads Aussie Readers group for their inventive reading challenges which send readers to book lists and genres we might never have discovered. That was how I found Jasper Jones. Thank you.!I saw it was an award-winner, but somehow I didnt expect it to appeal to me. I was wrong. It really is like hearing
A time in which racism as well as social exclusion are high."Jasper Jones" ist a story with complex strands and aspects, each one of which can fill a novel, all of which seem to overwhelm the book, but sometimes they are torn to the brink of inspiration, but do not come to one Solution.However, I wonder whether I can view this book as a pure youth book. Because background knowledge is complex.The writing style is light and easy. The dialogues partly funny, but also bitter.
While this story can be described as coming of age story, 13 year old Charlie Bucktin is already wise beyond his years in many ways. Some of Charlie's decisions may be rash but his motives are always above reproach. Charlie befriends Jasper Jones, a mixed race boy whose reputation as a trouble maker, thief and who is blamed for anything else bad that happens in Corrigan is based more on prejudice than truth. Charlie recognizing that Jasper would not be treated fairly, decides to help him keep a
* 2.5 * What would Atticus do ? Would he even approve of the choices made in this novel ? let alone having his named dropped all over it like little breadcrumbs marking the way to Boo Radleys house ... anyway, that particular authorial tick was the least of my concerns in the end. The problems with this book didn't begin to really nag at me until the last quarter. Sure, I had quibbles about Silvey's writing style, his penchant for short choppy, repetitive sentences. But he won me over
A sweet coming of age tale, that begins with a dead body.I didn't know much about this novel. The cover proclaims it to be 'an Australian To Kill A Mockingbird' (which I've never actually read), but having spent the last two years living in Australia and feeling slightly nostalgic for my time there, I decided to give this one a go. The novel itself has two different tones, on the one hand a sweet tale of unexpected friendship and first love, while the other deals with issues of racism,
What a wonderfully touching coming of age novel this is! I loved it, the tension, the nervous flush of young love, the injustice of the times....It was hot, summer in Australia is like that, and December 1965 was no exception. The heat was cloying, there was no getting away from it, and the nights were the hardest...not much sleep for anyone. Late one night 13 year old Charlie Bucktin was lying on his bed in his sleep-out, reading...his absolute favourite past-time. Since his father had given
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