Orchard on Fire by Shena MacKay: Used

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Objectstaat
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Publication Date
1997-11-15
Pages
224
ISBN
9780156005326

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156005328
ISBN-13
9780156005326
eBay Product ID (ePID)
350556

Product Key Features

Book Title
Orchard on Fire : a Novel
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
General, Coming of Age, Ancient & Classical
Genre
Drama, Fiction
Author
Shena Mackay
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-018478
Reviews
"Enthralling from the first page to the last...celebrates love and friendship and the resilinece of children."-The Boston Globe "A wonderous novel that will birth emotions anew, age them with experience and tinge them with an aching melancholy." -The Washington Post --, This intimate, intensely seen novel was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize. Shena Mackay's six previous novels have won her critical admiration and a popular audience in England, but her work has not received due recognition in the United States yet. The Orchard on Fire is a concise, domestic novel set in the village of Stonebridge, where the parents of April Harlency have come in 1953 to run the local tea shop. April's private reveries and her entanglement with the grim family life of her best friend, Ruby Richards, fill up a vivid and dramatic year in the wonderfully distinctive life of Stonebridge., "Enthralling from the first page to the last...celebrates love and friendship and the resilinece of children."-The Boston Globe "A wonderous novel that will birth emotions anew, age them with experience and tinge them with an aching melancholy." -The Washington Post, It's always a puzzle when a writer as talented as Londoner Shena Mackay remains virtually unknown on these shores, but her comparative obscurity here, despite rave reviews for A Bowl of Cherries and her short-story collection, Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags, may be dispelled with the publication of this finely wrought and touching novel. Narrator April Harlency looks back at the year 1953, when she was eight years old and had just moved to Stonebridge, in Kent, where her parents became proprietors of The Copper Kettle tearoom. April speedily becomes best friends with flame-haired Ruby Richards, daughter of the publicans who run the local saloon. The girls share a passion for reading, and for their secret sanctuary, an abandoned railway car hidden in an orchard. Despite their closeness, however, April can't bring herself to talk about the sexual molestation she endures from elderly Mr. Greenridge, who seems so kind and generous that April's oblivious parents chide her when she tries to stay out of his way. Nor does Ruby talk about her own father's physical abuse. Mackay brilliantly captures a child's voice and view of the world, the unspoken misapprehensions, fears and terrors'some imaginary, some well founded'that haunt April's dreams. Her prose a marvel of precise, evocative detail and almost sensual intensity, she shadows her gently humorous depiction of the ordinary daily life of a child'school, a Christmas pageant, the birth of April's brother'with the undertow of anxiety in April's mind. Ironically, while April seems the most seriously threatened by creepy Mr. Greenridge's increasingly bold advances, it is Ruby whose life undergoes a wrenching change. The ending, which involves a tombstone inscription that jolts both April and the reader, would be trite in other hands, but Mackay reworks a familiar fictional device into something poignant and true. The throb of real life among blue-collar families animates this subtle and compassionate story, as does Mackay's insight into a child's view of the world.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Synopsis
Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the predjuices and vagaries of the adult world. When April encounters the red-haired, energetic Ruby Richards, the two girls become fast friends. Together, they abandon the physical and mental abuse forced on them by adults in their lives and transform an abandoned railway car in an orchard into their secret hideaway, an idyllic camp of shared dreams.
LC Classification Number
PR6063.A2425O73 1997

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