Jean Bothwell (1892–1977)
Autor(a) de The Empty Tower
Obras por Jean Bothwell
Flame in the sky 4 exemplares
Star of India 3 exemplares
Peter Holt, P.K. 3 exemplares
The animal world of India 2 exemplares
The borrowed monkey 2 exemplares
Ride, Zarina, Ride 2 exemplares
Onions Without Tears 1 exemplar
Mystery Cup 1 exemplar
Ranch of a Thousand Horns 1 exemplar
Golden Letter to Siam 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1892
- Data de falecimento
- 1977
- Localização do túmulo
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Winside, Nebraska, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Fayette, Missouri, USA
Membros
Discussions
YA Fiction / Middle-Eastern (maybe?) girl rides white horse at night. em Name that Book (Abril 2014)
Críticas
Listas
1964 Project (1)
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 55
- Membros
- 368
- Popularidade
- #65,433
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 25
Maybe because it's so very specific to its time & place. Rural New York state, but 'feels' like England - they even have afternoon tea. Pub. 1964, but the boy Quin is recovering from polio, which was a bigger issue several decades earlier. Also a bit sexist for the 60s, as the girl, though generally spunky & active, was absolutely the more easily frightened & fussed.
V. concise - not a lot of background information is provided, not a lot happens besides that which is key to the mystery. But still, little odd nuggets of amusement were inserted, such as the girl being nicknamed Pickles because of her fondness for such foods.
I could have, theoretically, read it as a child - but imagining myself trying to, I think I probably would not have liked it. I felt like a stone skipping across a pond, getting glimpses of these people and their lives but not getting to spend enough time with them. Back then, that would have bothered me even more than it does now.
Then again, neither then nor now do I like mysteries. So I may be prejudiced.
Still, I'm giving it four stars because the characters were so intriguing that I wanted to get to know them better, and I keep thinking about the book after I've closed it and started on the next.… (mais)