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"Today I am going to tell the story of this family," said Rosemary. She put her finger on the book and began to read. "The story of this family is the story of a happy group of people. A sister and little brother, a Mommy and Daddy. They stay together and live happily ever after."
But even in the 1950s, living happily ever after is something much sought after, seldom achieved. Young Robbie O'Conor and his older sister Rosemary inhabit a world in which their mother spends her afternoons writing poetry, their father sells big, finned cars at the local Ford dealership, and their Midwestern neighborhood sleeps mysteriously under thick blankets of snow. But Robbie is stricken with a disease which saps the blood and heart from him - and just when he needs Rosemary most, something cataclysmic occurs. When Robbie seeks to regain his fairly tale world, he discovers himself in a nightmare both disturbing and profound.
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A Haunting First Novel Tackling the Fragile Psyche of Early Childhood; What do you do when you're three years old and discover that your fairy tale world has been destroyed forever? Young Robbie O'Connor and his older sister Rosemary inhabit a world in which their mother spends her afternoons writing poetry, their father sells big finned cars at the local Ford dealership, and the Midwestern neighbourhood sleeps mysteriously under thick blankets of snow. But Robbie is stricken with a disease which saps the blood and heart from him - and just when he needs Rosemary most, something cataclysmic occurs. When Robbie seeks to regain his fairy tale world, he discovers himself in a nightmare both disturbing and profound. Possessed of that rarity, an authentic child's voice Joseph Cummins' debut novel The Snow Train is a masterly work reminiscent of such 20th century classics as Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. By probing the darkest corners of childhood with an eerie, sometimes surreal clarity, Cummins allows the reader to inhabit those places that adults can rarely reach.
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- PublisherAkashic Books,U.S.
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1888451238
- ISBN 13 9781888451238
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages290
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