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S.E. Hinton: Hawkes Harbor
Title: Hawkes Harbor
Author: S.E. Hinton
Oddly, I have never before read a book by S.E. Hinton, which for an American of my age is just plain weird. Just plain weird also describes "Hawkes Harbor," but in the best possible way.
It's hard to describe this book without spoiling it. It starts with an orphaned illegitimate boy being dragged off to a Catholic orphanage in 1950, but his experiences there are not the cente of the book. Rather, we jump ahead to his young adulthood, when he arrives at a private mental institution under mysterious circumstances, with major depression and partial amnesia. The book is about his remembeing bits of his past and coming to grips with his rather terrifying present (just to help you out, the institution is not where the terror lies).
It's written with a young adult audience in mind, but a sophisticated one (it was published in 2004). It's fascinating and suspenseful and rather reminded me of a favorite author of really creepy YA fiction, Robert Cormier. Fast-paced and suspenseful. Also some sex, though not graphic. Read it before giving it to a teen.
Author: S.E. Hinton
Oddly, I have never before read a book by S.E. Hinton, which for an American of my age is just plain weird. Just plain weird also describes "Hawkes Harbor," but in the best possible way.
It's hard to describe this book without spoiling it. It starts with an orphaned illegitimate boy being dragged off to a Catholic orphanage in 1950, but his experiences there are not the cente of the book. Rather, we jump ahead to his young adulthood, when he arrives at a private mental institution under mysterious circumstances, with major depression and partial amnesia. The book is about his remembeing bits of his past and coming to grips with his rather terrifying present (just to help you out, the institution is not where the terror lies).
It's written with a young adult audience in mind, but a sophisticated one (it was published in 2004). It's fascinating and suspenseful and rather reminded me of a favorite author of really creepy YA fiction, Robert Cormier. Fast-paced and suspenseful. Also some sex, though not graphic. Read it before giving it to a teen.