Briar Rose: Jane Yolen's Magic Touch Revealed

(An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, Briar Kose was originally published for adults but has become a popular young adult book selection.) In Briar Rose, a mysterious, fractured account of the Sleeping Beauty tale is entwined with a riveting, classic search for identity amidst the historic horror of a Nazi extermination camp. Becca resembles Yolen herself to a great degree in her interests and background: residence in Hatfield, Massachusetts; education at Smith College; journalism work; reading preferences (Robin McKinley's Beauty); and Berlin family name; to list some of many commonalities. The details Yolen selected for that paragraph also spoke foretellingly of Briar Rose (which wasn't published for another 11 years): Becca's story opens with her chugging up a "slippery hill" (a glass mountain) in her trusty, little car to attend to-and ultimately rescue-Gemma, who lies dying, restrained on the uppermost floor of a nursing home in a corner room (like a princess imprisoned in the high turret of a castle); the thorny bush is the briar thicket surrounding the sleeping princess, as well as the barbed wire that punctuates the ironclad grip of Chelmno's walls; there is a man's ring of unknown origin bearing the initials JMP and date 1928; and there's a crown, too, although it is a figurative one, to be won. If our fantasy books are not strong enough [. . .] then real stories, like those of Adolph Hitler's evil deeds, will seem like so much slanted news, not to be believed. Because writing about Tough Magic takes courage on the author's part as well.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Mara, Robin

Đề mục:

Literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2007

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v35i1.a.8

Nguồn gốc:

ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 35, Issue 1, Fall 2007, Pages 67-72

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ISSN 0882-2840

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Briar Rose: Jane Yolen's Magic Touch Revealed

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