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Running with Trains
Michael J. Rosen
其他書名
A Novel in Poetry and Two Voices
出版Boyds Mills Press, 2012-04-01
主題Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / Boys & MenJuvenile Nonfiction / Family / General
ISBN16297918499781629791845
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nUMUBQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Is the grass greener on the other side of the train window? Even a brief brush with a stranger can change our lives. It's 1970, and Perry feels adrift in turbulent times: his father is missing in action in Vietnam, his mother is studying to become a nurse in the city, his older sister has become a peacenik in college. Traveling between his hometown, where he lives with his grandmother, and his mother's house in Cincinnati, Perry notices Steve, whose farm lies on the B&O railroad line. Steve likes to race the train as it blows by his fields; Steve skillfully sends his collie after an escaped cow; Steve watches the Cincinnatian, longing for its speed, longing for adventure. In alternating voices, Michael J. Rosen's poems weave a tale of two boys—one wishing for the stability of home, the other yearning to travel—and the unexpected impact of their fleeting encounter.