The Tightrope Walkers
A Teen, Romance, Realistic Fiction book. Theres nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, youre different, and youll be grown and gone afore I know....
'I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne...'Dominic Hall grows up in the sixties on a brand-new estate, along with the other families who escaped the river. But the Tyne is still an overwhelming presence, and most of the fathers work in the shipyards. Dom is torn between his new mates: Holly Stroud, his enchanting neighbour, and Vincent McAlinden, who's something else altogether - a wild, dangerous boy with murderous instincts. After his mother's death, Dom has to decide who...
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- Pages: 288 pages
- ISBN: 9780241003237 / 241003237
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You must live in peace, he told us. We are only in this world for a short period of vivid and wonderful waking in an eternity of dreamless dark. David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers // Theres nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, youre different, and youll be grown and gone afore I know. He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. And this is hardly a place thatll draw you back, he said. David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers // I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then. David Almond, The Tightrope Walkers //
Dominic Hall is a boy, growing up, on the edges of a shipyard, on the northern coast of England. His father, toils in that shipyard and like many of the working class, of that era, ('60s) barely keeps his family afloat.Dominic makes friends with a smart and gifted girl, named Holly and they make an instant bond. She dreams of being... This novel was filled with violence, beauty, and just a feeling of truth. What a wonderful, heartbreaking story. I feel like David Almond is the type of person who finds other people fascinating and that's the reason he is able to write them all with such life. I mean... wow. I know , I know. This isn't exactly a well thought out review but honestly , I am STUNNED. All the characters in this novel are so complex , so well - faceted , so BEAUTIFUL...
