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- Author: Donnelly Jennifer
- Publisher: Algoritam
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 58088
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Donnelly Jennifer
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Jennifer Donnelly: Aurora
Mattie Gokey is a sixteen-year-old girl faced with difficult life decisions. After her mother's death, she was left with the burden of raising her younger sisters on her father's estate, barely making ends meet. At the same time, Royal Loomis arrives, an attractive but rather uninteresting suitor.
Mattie knows that she has been accepted to study creative writing at Barnard College in New York, so over the summer she will work as a maid in a posh hotel in the Adirondacks and from the earnings - if life allows her - will pay her tuition. Mattie loves words more than anything: the words she writes, the words she remembers, the words that provide her with a way to survive the cruel reality that surrounds her, the words that most often remain deeply threatened within her. And then, one day, she gets her hands on a bundle of fateful words - a collection of letters entrusted to her by a young woman named Grace Brown, just before she is about to go on a boat trip, on which she will drown.
Because the year is 1906, and the mysterious death of Grace Brown is the same true event that already inspired Theodore Dreiser to write "American Tragedy", screened in the movie "The Place Under by the sun". In "Aurora Light", Jennifer Donnelly reaches for the same motif from a distance of a century in order to powerfully outline the poverty, racism and feminism of the beginning of the twentieth century. With honest and lucid words, Mattie powerfully outlines her world, so different from the reality faced by her peers today. She witnesses suffering and death from a close range that is not often encountered anymore.
"Aurora Light" immediately after its publication became a favorite read and one of the rare contemporary books in which the troubles and joys of a long-lost world seem as real as the present. The novel is also the winner of numerous prestigious awards (Carnegie Medal, L.A. Times Book Prize, The Borders Original Voices Prize, Michael L. Printz Honor and De Gouden Zoen Honor, book of the year by Publishers Weekly, Booklist and The Times).
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- Author: Donnelly Jennifer
- Publisher: Algoritam
- Year of publication:2006
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:306
- Dimensions:16x24 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Hardcover
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