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Cargando... Maiden Voyagepor Cynthia Bass
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This coming-of-age story is about a 12-year-old boy named Sumner, named after Senator Charles Sumner, the great abolitionist. Sumner’s parents are separated: his mother, a suffragette, lives in the States, and his father resides in England. He visits his father every couple of years. Sumner writes poetry, and entering a contest, writes a poem comparing the lack of rights, specifically voting rights, for women to slavery. Though he loses the contest, his mother is so delighted by his efforts that she rewards him with a ticket to return to the States on the Titanic. It is during this visit to his father and the voyage home that Sumner learns many things. He discovers some truths about his father. Traveling alone on the ship, he learns to make friends of strangers. He becomes enchanted by an older woman. He learns to smoke. He is torn between saving his life by entering a lifeboat or staying with the men on the ship. He speaks up to save another. One interesting comment is made by his friend: “If you can’t make a big difference one day, you’re stuck making little ones every day.” Set against the sinking of the Titanic, this story of how one young boy reaches maturity almost overnight is quite an interesting tale. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In 1912 the Titanic was the largest, fastest, and most lavish man-made object on earth--the elegant and invincible consummation of the Industrial Age. An international flurry of wonder and gaiety launched its ill-fated voyage from London to New York. For one boy, however, it would be a voyage of crisis and discovery. Torn between the worlds of his estranged parents--the activism of his suffragist mother and the social frenzy of his bohemian father--Sumner aspires to both, longing desperately for manhood, poetry and heroism. On his own for the Titanic's fateful crossing, the boy finds himself drawn to two very different passengers: the fiery young feminist Ivy Earnshaw and handsome, sophisticated Pierce Andrews, aviator and cynic. In the harrowing last moments of the giant, doomed ship, the three young people find themselves joined in a devastating and intimate dance with death no reader will forget. From the Trade Paperback edition. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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