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Cargando... An Ocean in Iowa (1997)por Peter Hedges
  
Books Read in 2021 (2,998) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) overlycriticalelisa | Mar 20, 2024 |  Scotty Ocean turns seven. His mother leaves him and his two older sisters. Scotty tries various ways to get his mother to return to the family. Some are funny and some are embarrassing. If you are interested in a humorous book about a young boy growing up in Iowa, I would suggest The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. This is a laugh out loud that takes place in Des Moines. (  ) dara85 | Sep 27, 2021 | ) TBoerner | Mar 22, 2017 |  ) megrockstar | Dec 19, 2008 | ) bridget72 | Sep 15, 2007 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: A funny, bittersweet exploration of how a child can change in one short year of love, loss, and growing up... Seven-year-old Scotty Ocean decides that seven is going to be "his year." But soon after his birthday, his artist-turned-alcoholic mother abandons the familyâ??leaving Scotty and his two older sisters alone with their father. As his perfect year is torn apart (falls apart?), Scotty begins to act out during school and takes a series of increasingly wild actions to try to win his mother backâ??and, when that doesn't work, to replace her. Funny and deeply affecting, An Ocean in Iowa traces Scotty's desperate attempt to hold on to his childhood while the foundation of his family disintegrates. As Scotty's year as a seven-year-old flies byâ??and the dreaded eight approachesâ??Hedges explores how Scotty sheds his childhood in a one-eighty of the year he hoped would be so perfect. Beautifully written, and with Hedges's careful attention to period detail, this compelling coming-of-age novel sets the private turmoil of a disintegrating family against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the turbulent No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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