David Rain (1) (1966–2015)
Autor(a) de The Heat of the Sun
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David Rain (1) foi considerado como pseudónimo de Tom Arden.
Obras por David Rain
Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Tom Arden.
Associated Works
Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Tom Arden.
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Rain, David
- Nome legal
- Rain, David Christopher
- Outros nomes
- Tom Arden
- Data de nascimento
- 1966
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-12-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Mount Gambier, Australia
- Local de falecimento
- London, UK
Membros
Críticas
Listas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 101
- Popularidade
- #188,710
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 12
- ISBN
- 30
Getting into the story took me a while, I must admit, even though 'Skip' reminded me - in spirit if not in sympathy - of Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird. I'm not sure why the author chose to make the main character a girl when the book obviously has an autobiographical slant, because 'Skip' is a pre-pubescent boy in all but (birth) name. Unless he thought that having a girl beat up the bully would be more entertaining (and he would be right). I got used to 'Skip' eventually, but the pointless scene where she starts her period at school and runs home covered in blood was a worthy successor to the scene in Stephen King's Carrie for male authors not understanding menstruation, and threw me back out of the moment.
The 'story in a story' of local golden boy turned pariah, Roger Dansie, was more interesting, but the 'commune' in the haunted house was a bit far-fetched, and the heavy-handed themes of the Ibsen play put on by the local am dram players reminded me of Mansfield Park.
A random but readable book, with a quirky if slightly cliched cast of characters.… (mais)