The Rope Walk
A Book Club, Coming Of Age, Audiobook book. Wonderful Vermont writer who shows you the compassion of two ten year old kids that help a...
The Rope Walk brings us the dazzling story of a pivotal summer in the life of Alice, a redheaded tomboy and motherless girl who is beloved and protected by her five older brothers and her widower father, a professor of Shakespeare. On Memorial Day, at her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she’s known before. Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer. Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce with his middle-aged sister. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and, almost as quickly, find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial Kenneth. When the children begin a daily routine of reading aloud to the artist, who is losing his eyesight, they discover the journals of Lewis and Clark and decide to embark on their own wilderness adventure: they plan and secretly build a “rope walk” through the woods for Kenneth and in the process learn the first of many hard truths about the way adults see the world, no matter...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780375424632 / 375424636
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Motherless Alice, the only girl in a family of teen boys, befriends a mixed child, Theo, while he is visiting his grandparents over the summer. Alice and Theo befriend Kenneth, an artist neighbor who has AIDS. As an act of kindness, the children decide to create a rope walk for Kenneth, leading to a series of events that dramatically... Wonderful Vermont writer who shows you the compassion of two ten year old kids that help a man with aids live and die. Lots of feels in this book. The unfairness of being good looking and having a sister that is not good looking. Being half Black and getting shunned by your White grandparents. Going through a divorce along with your... This is one of those books you either really like or really dislike - personally , I really disliked it . The story was lacking depth. It was hidden behind never-ending sentences and flowery discriptions that lost my attention . I wanted to sharpie marker through all of the author's " like ..." 's and " as if ...." 's !
