Name: Redemption of Elsdon Bird (Peter Owen Modern Classic) (en Inglés)
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Author: Noel Virtue
ISBN: 9780720611663

portada Redemption of Elsdon Bird (Peter Owen Modern Classic) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Peter Owen Publishers

Autor

Noel Virtue

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

122

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0720611660

ISBN13

9780720611663

Categorías

Ficción literaria

Redemption of Elsdon Bird (Peter Owen Modern Classic) (en Inglés)

Noel Virtue (Autor) · Peter Owen Publishers · Tapa Blanda

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Elsdon Bird is an affectionate and imaginative child raised in a family steeped in the religious intolerance of the Christian Bretheren sect. When Dad gets sacked from his city workplace for proselytising and trying to 'save' his workmates, the Birds are forced to leave Wellington and their odd-ball neighbours with whom the lonely, marginalised boy had some affinity, and move to a small, remote town in the north. Here, life might have changed for the better, but instead the family begins to disintegrate. Socially isolated beyond regular infusions of bigotry from the other Brethren families or 'holy rollers' in the town, his parents descend further into a rigid looking-glass world of religious fundamentalism that uses Elsdon as a whipping boy for all its frustrations. Driven more and more into himself and inspired by the Jungle Book, Elsdon builds a fragile internal world maintained by conversations with cows and sheep. He also talks to a small voice in his head which, for a time, is the closest thing he has to a confidant. Yet, when a sequence of disasters finally breaks up the family, the endearing Elsdon's amazing resilience and precocious humanity see him win through in the end. Many writers have attempted to convey the lucid, terrifying world of a sensitive child in the grip of a family bent on pathological violence but few have brought it off with the conviction and subsequent acclaim as Noel Virtue. THE REDEMPTION OF ELSDON BIRD was shortlisted for the UK's most valuable literary prize in 1987, the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.