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Sweet Hearts by Melanie Rae Thon (2001, Hardcover)

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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100395785898

ISBN-139780395785898

eBay Product ID (ePID)1698973

Product Key Features

Book TitleSweet Hearts

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicGeneral

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

TypeTextbook

AuthorMelanie Rae Thon

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight15.5 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-035083

ReviewsThon writes so searingly...that the reader is not compelled to judge, but to understand...the violent lives she depicts., Thon's writing is incredible . . . her plots are driving, and what she has added to this one is a contagious empathy., Prose so taut and full of feeling that it enters the mind as though it were being whispered in the dark, The range of emotion Thon has her narrator intuit in other characters' lives -- and share with us -- is remarkable., null Publishers Weekly "Prose so taut and full of feeling that it enters the mind as though it were being whispered in the dark" Booklist, ALA, Starred Review "Episodic, intensely imagined and darkly portentous." Publishers Weekly, Starred "Brilliantly imagined and infused with a raw spirituality that cuts to the bone." Starred review. Kirkus Reviews "Thon writes so searingly...that the reader is not compelled to judge, but to understand...the violent lives she depicts." Minneapolis Star-Tribune "...A richly nuanced portrayal of a community whose relationships--and history--are fraught with difficult complexities." Publishers Weekly ". . . her most haunting and devastating [novel] to date . . . shattering yet deeply spiritual." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review "The range of emotion Thon has her narrator intuit in other characters' lives -- and share with us -- is remarkable." The Los Angeles Times "A powerful, pitch-perfect novel." Elle "Sweet Hearts conjures our relentless search to find a kind of personal, imperfect transcendence." The San Francisco Chronicle "Thon manipulates the pieces of her story like colored gems at the end of a kaleidoscope." Cleveland Plain Dealer "[Thon] has an arresting prose style, confrontational and searching." Newsday "Thon is an immensely gifted prose stylist and storyteller . . . that homework results in passages of breathtaking authenticity and power." The Washington Post "Thon's writing is incredible . . . her plots are driving, and what she has added to this one is a contagious empathy." The Oregonian, Thon is an immensely gifted prose stylist and storyteller . . . that homework results in passages of breathtaking authenticity and power.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Table Of ContentC o n t e n t s 1. Ghost Brother · 1 2. Unburied Boy · 6 3. Small Crimes · 10 4. The Deaf Girl: Notes for a Play · 17 5. In Uncertain Light · 19 6. The Disappeared · 23 7. Cowbirds · 29 8. Dixie and the Crows · 32 9. The Long Way Home · 35 10. Children"s Games · 38 11. Snow · 39 12. Ghost Girl · 42 13. The Hunchback · 43 14. Dreams, Death, Desire · 46 15. Birdsongs · 56 16. Instructions for Extinction · 58 17. Blind Fish · 60 18. The Lake · 62 19. On Drowning · 72 20. Catechism · 73 21. Testimony · 81 22. Mother: Final Instructions · 85 23. The Rainbow · 87 24. In Another Lifetime · 90 25. Mysteries · 110 26. The Coyote and the Crow · 111 27. A Wounded Cow · 115 28. Little Woman · 118 29. Other Mysteries · 120 30. In the Photograph · 122 31. With Hearts Like Awls · 123 32. Another Winter · 128 33. First Winter · 132 34. In Summer · 134 35. A Child of Two Fathers · 136 36. The Stowaway and the Lover · 143 37. The Evening News · 147 38. Home · 150 39. Lost Children · 155 40. Twilight · 158 41. Morning · 164 42. In Another Country · 170 43. Catechism · 176 44. Miracles · 178 45. Our Saviors · 180 46. Catching the Coyote · 190 47. Whose Child Is This? · 193 48. On Bleeding Out · 195 49. Catechism · 197 50. The Lives of Birds · 207 51. Catechism · 216 52. Snow in August · 217 53. The Birdman · 230

Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition

SynopsisMarie Zimmer has stories to tell but will not speak. Deaf since the age of nine and motherless since she was eleven, Marie is a mute witness to her family's turmoil, the only one bold enough to tell the tale of Flint and Cecile, her sister's dangerous children. At sixteen, Flint has spent eight years of his life in juvenile detention. Half child, half full-grown criminal, he escapes from the Landers School for Boys and comes home to find the one person he loves and trusts, his little sister Cecile. Together they rob and terrorize a local doctor, steal their mother's car, then strike out alone on a desperate journey south to the Crow Indian Reservation, where their ancestors once lived. Is Cecile Flint's hostage, or his accomplice? Nobody knows. Only Marie, the children's deaf aunt, understands the strange logic of their crimes, their desire and fear, their devotion to each other. Fusing family myth with American history, SWEET HEARTS exposes a never-ending chain of wandering and abandonment, the disappearance of mothers, the drowning of people. It is a devastating story, one woman's silent struggle to unravel the web of violence that has trapped her family for generations. This passionate tale is also a celebration of life in the midst of sorrow. In the fierce light of her imagination, Marie Zimmer weaves the past through the present, inventing a language of signs subtle enough to illuminate the mysterious ways in which we are all connected.

LC Classification NumberPS3570.H6474S9 2000