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In a “coming-of-age story as strange and surprising...as The Catcher in the Rye” (New York Times Book Review), a fifteen-year-old boy must learn to live on his own and contend with the vagaries of romantic love and racial hatred.

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In a “coming-of-age story as strange and surprising...as The Catcher in the Rye” (New York Times Book Review), a fifteen-year-old boy must learn to live on his own and contend with the vagaries of romantic love and racial hatred.

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In calm, measured prose, Cowan describes a rainy English summer in which sex, death, racism, and urban decay are inextricably mixed. The death of his grandmother and subsequent removal of his grandfather to a home prompt fifteen-year-old Danny to spend the summer taking care of their cottage and tending their elderly pig. The decaying house becomes a refuge for him and his Indian girlfriend, Surinder, a haven from the discontent and bigotry of their council estate. His imagination fueled by his grandfather's tales of the past, Danny dreams of repairing the cottage, bringing order to the garden, and starting a piggery with Surinder. As summer wanes, the realities of growing up and dying supplant the dreams. The cottage is sold and ready for demolition, the pig begins to die, his grandfather ages, and Surinder drifts away. The climax of the story is both inevitable and poignant. Cowan is a skillful prose artist, managing to achieve a style that is both ominous and occasionally comic. The squalid old cottage and the stench of pig swill nearly swamp the tender lyricism of Danny and Surinder's awakening sexuality. Portraits of Danny's loveable and garrulous Grandad, his loutish brother Richard, the sensuous and calculating Surinder, and the bigoted neighbors on the council estate emerge naturally from the narrative. The novel holds rewards for the young adult reader who will identify with a young man who wants more than his life offers. Explicit sexual activity and strong language are essential to the novel. VOYA Codes: 5Q 3P S (Hard to imagine it being any better written, Will appeal with pushing, Senior High-defined as grades 10 to 12).
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A solid, strong first effort from prize-winning Scottish-born writer Cowan, who peers closely into the struggles of a sensitive boy—oppressed by the bitterness and decay endemic to the harsh world of English estate housing in a once-thriving industrial town—as he tries to hold on to those things most precious to him.

Fifteen-year-old Danny, bright but already battered by a less- than-loving home life, suffers a new blow when his grandmother dies. Grandad, long crippled by the loss of a leg, is moved immediately into a nursing home, leaving behind the isolated bungalow where he and his wife spent much of their lives, the extensive garden plot she tended with such care, and a pig, the last of many raised and slaughtered through the years, that Gran had decided to keep as a pet. Out of school for the summer, Danny resolves to take up where Gran left off and all but moves into the bungalow, although he soon finds the gardening beyond his ability and inclination. Meanwhile, his close friendship with a classmate, Surinder, blooms into Danny's first love, with the bungalow providing a refuge from the estate's many racists—his own parents and deadbeat brother included—who would react violently to his taking up with an Indian girl. Only Grandad, whom Danny visits daily in the home, seems to accept Surinder as Danny's special friend, but his health is fading fast without his wife's ministrations. In fact, the idyll that Danny believes he's found in his new circumstances proves to be more illusion than substance: Surinder soon indicates that she has ambitions beyond being a pig farmer, the bungalow is sold, and the pig, in spite of Danny's care, is also dying.

Adolescent dreams at odds with postindustrial reality are evoked poignantly and honestly here—in a small but excellent tale of contemporary English society.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780156005456
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 10/15/1997
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 5.27 (w) x 7.95 (h) x 0.58 (d)

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