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Gretel Breadcrumbs
Unregistered User
(6/3/06 6:02 pm)
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Stolen Child
There's a novel that just came out called Stolen
Child based on Butler-Yeats poem. Has anyone read it and, if
so, is it any good?
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midori snyder
Registered User
(6/3/06 6:35 pm)
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Re: Stolen Child
I read a very interesting review of it...have it on my list of books to get.
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midori snyder
Registered User
(6/5/06 5:14 pm)
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Re: Stolen Child
ok...found another positive review of the novel in The Onion of all places...I picked up my copy today and am already deep into it. Pretty interesting
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tlchang37
Registered User
(6/10/06 12:11 am)
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Re: Stolen Child
Can you tell me who the author is?
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midori snyder
Registered User
(6/10/06 3:04 am)
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Re: Stolen Child
Kevin Donohue. I am about half way through and its really great.
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Heidi Anne Heiner
ezOP
(6/25/06 12:59 am)
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Re: Stolen Child
Wow, Stolen Child is staying consistently in Amazon's bestsellers. Does it live up to the numbers? Midori, is it a purchase or a library book?
Heidi
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midori snyder
Registered User
(6/26/06 4:34 am)
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Re: Stolen Child
It's a really wonderful novel. Donohue has created this dual rites of passage novel: the changeling (who was human a hundred years ago) struggling to live and grow as a human being again, and the human child, trapped in the feral world of the fairy trying to survive as a changeling. Both boys are haunted by the loss of their families, by a desire to situate themselves in a life that has meaning, connection, love. The changelings have very little magic as such--they are like a small tribe of hungry, anxious children, surviving by their wits in the fringes of woods around the suburbs, stealing the odd piece of clothing, food from garbage. Despite the fact that they are ageless, their lives are precarious, and they suffer from cold, a terminal longing to belong to the world of humans again and a boredom that comes with having lived for a century while remaining physically still shildren. For the changeling now returned to the human world, it is an act of will to make his body grow again so as to resemble maturation. He lives with this troubling secret of a life lived elsewhere, of a hundred years in the wild..and a terror that one day the people he has come to love will discover the truth--that he swapped places with the real Henry Day.
It's really moving in places--especially as the changeling Henry Day and the human boy now known as Aniday struggle to come to terms with what they are; to feel comfortable in this strange skin they now inhabit. It's a lot like an Alice Hoffman novel that keeps the fantastic elements very close to home, folding them in a subtle way into ordinary life.
Edited by: midori snyder at: 6/26/06 4:38 am
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