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9781565123281: Winter Run
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ISBN 10: 156512328X ISBN 13: 9781565123281
Editorial: ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL, 2002

Sinopsis

Moving to rural Virginia, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, after World War II, young Charlie Lewis, the only child of a frequently absent father and standoffish mother, has a natural affinity with the animals around him and sets out to learn their secrets, with the help of a group of older black men, farm workers and neighbors, who care for him.

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There are certain special and rare books that refresh our understanding of how children see the world. This is one of those books. It's the story of a boy growing up in a lost time in an idyllic place rural Virginia of the late 1940s.

Charlie Lewis is the only child of city people who, after the war, choose to live at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains on a "gentleman's farm" near Charlottesville. Six years old when his family settles in the renovated corn crib on old Professor Jame's place, Charlie grows up in his personal version of heaven. His innocene is, of course, lost in the process. And so is his version of heaven.

But, as the old saying goes, still waters run deep, and Charlie runs deep, with a natural (almost supernatural) affinity for the land and its animals. For knowledge , he instinctively turns to a group of older black men, some of whom work the farm, others who are neighbors. Jim Crow laws and "the curse left on the land by slavery" as old Professor James puts it are still very much in evidence. Even so, Charlie's passions endear him to these men. They understand that he is lonely even if he does not. They watch out for him. And more they love him.

Winter Run is a story that lets us escape for a moment our own noisy and complicated contemporary lives. Like The Red Pony, like Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, it takes us back to the joys of childhood's unrestricted enthusiasm and curiosity.

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Editorial
ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL
Año de publicación
2002
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ISBN 10 
156512328X
ISBN 13 
9781565123281
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224
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