Transcript Clare Sambrook Hide & Seek

Clare Sambrook
Hide & Seek
Title: Hide & Seek
Author: Clare Sambrook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 288
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 1841956538
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Size: 5.7 MB
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Description
Meet Harry Pickles, the fastest boy in the world (well, at least in school). big brother to Daniel
(who runs like a girl but is, in his own twerpy way, a star), and the firstborn son of Mo and Pa,
the best-looking parents in their Notting Hill elementary school parking lot. Harry's life, like any
other nine-year-old's, is a colorful, frenetic, and fun blur of lunch boxes, vocabulary tests, and
keeping up with his pals Piggy and I'erry--not to mention keeping an eye on his kid brother
Daniel. Mo, a successful, well-known journalist, and Pa, a surgeon, have built a wonderful world
for Harry and Daniel to grow up in, but when a school outing results in Daniel's vanishing, the
complicated adult world of police investigations and interviews, searches of the countryside,
recriminations, and ultimate responsibilitiy come crashing in on a very confused Harry. Told with
an utterly compelling and exuberant sense of truth in a barrowing situation. "Hide & Seek is a
fresh debut of remarkable compassion, tense mystery, disarming humor, and emotional clarity.
Clare Sambrooke's exceptional debut novel should find its palce alongside other recent
achievements in literary fiction such as "The Lovely Bones. The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time, and "The Deep End of the Ocean.
Insightful reviews
Shanle: I had such a hard time reading this. i could not always follow along with what was
happening.
Jessica: Unfortunately I didn't find this book as thrilling as I had originally believed I would be.
Although I can credit this book to contain originality and a unique story line, the execution is
what really led me to disappointment. While I enjoyed the childish humor and jokes of a young
boy, the sentence structure is difficult to ignore. Writing in the perspective of a young boy is
difficult and confusing enough, but often the switch between Harry's imagination and reality
were difficult to distinguish. The book does shed some light on a real-world problem however,
and for that I completely respect her writing this book. This book is truly heartbreaking but Clare
Sambrook provides some comic relief through the eyes of 9-year old Harry, however I wish I
had been more pulled in to this book as it progressed because I found it hard to pay attention to.
J.: In tutto il mondo? Per davvero? In Italia e in Giappone e in Pakistan e a Wakkatoo, in
tuttissimo il mondo c'erano ragazzi come me che cercavano il Daniel che avevano perso? Che
lo vedevano anche se non c'era? Be', un po' mi aiutava a sentirmi meno solo.
Abbiamo perso tutti qualcosa o qualcuno nella vita. Forse una nostra dimenticanza, forse un
nostro errore, o forse una libera scelta. Forse il semplice corso della vita.
Quella di Hide and Seek è la perdita di un fratello minore, di un figlio, di un bambino solare ed
imprevedibile, sempre pronto a ficcarsi nei guai con la sua spropositata curiosità.
Harry nutriva sentimenti opposti per il suo fratellino Daniel. Come tra tutti i fratelli ci sono i
momenti buoni e i momenti meno buoni, le litigate per le sciocchezze, le riappacificazioni
forzate, le esplorazioni in giardino o al parco. Ma la storia di Harry e Dan, che sembra quella di
una normalissima coppia di fratelli, va in frantumi a seguito di una gita scolastica a Legoland.
Partono in due, ne torna solo uno. Harry ha perso di vista il fratellino durante una sosta in una
stazione di servizio e da quel momento, dal momento in cui vede la faccia sconvolta di sua
madre, Harry comprende di aver commesso l'errore più grande della sua vita, l'errore più
difficile da rimediare. Solo il tempo, forse, riuscirà a colmare quel piccolo vuoto che prima Dan
occupava, ma che ora sembra una voragine gigantesca pronta ad inghiottire tutti nel nulla.
In questo romanzo d'esordio Clare Sambrook da voce e vita a Harry, un ragazzino di soli nove
anni che è costretto a maturare ed invecchiare rapidamente a seguito del tragico evento che ha
segnato le vite della sua famiglia. La caratterizzazione è impressionante, i dettagli realistici e
vivi, la narrazione efficace - forse con uno stampo troppo giornalistico, ma, perdoniamola, è
quello il vero lavoro della Sambrook.
Una lettura appassionante e al contempo delicata che si propone di analizzare
intelligentemente la distruzione della quotidianità di una famiglia a seguito di una brusca
separazione, e poi la lenta ripresa, ma mai la completa dimenticanza.
P.S: Lo stile di scrittura mi ha fatto impazzire. E' un vero peccato che la Sambrook non abbia
lavorato ad altri romanzi.
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Kirsty Darbyshire: i actually cherished this, even though it is particularly rather disturbing. The
historical past of the tale is baby is going missing, however the tale is advised from the
perspective of a 9 12 months outdated boy. analyzing it whereas the Madeleine McCann case
was once within the information (a accident that I merely realised after i began analyzing it btw i have had it out of the library for your time and if i might concept a section instead of simply
picking out up the subsequent publication within the pile i would no longer have learn it) made it
appear a section odd, and type of unrealistic too. yet you'll want to do not forget that a 9 yr
previous narrator is not omniscient.
Karschtl: Das hide lässt eigentlich einen Roman der leicht-beschwingten Sorte vermuten. Der
Klappentext weist aber schon auf das Gegenteil hin. Es geht hier um die Geschichte einer
Familie, deren kleiner Sohn bei einem Schulausflug plötzlich spurlos verschwindet. Erzählt wird
das Ganze vom älteren Bruder, der beim Ausflug dabei conflict und sich nun verantwortlich
fühlt, nicht intestine genug auf seinen Bruder aufgepasst zu haben. Gleichzeitig ist er aber auch
sauer auf seine Eltern (im Besonderen auf seine Mutter), die sich nun so verhalten als hätten
sie gar kein type mehr und ihn völlig hyperlinks liegen lassen weil sie zu sehr mit der Trauer um
den kleinen Dan beschäftigt sind. Mehrmals würde Harry am liebsten laut rausschreien "Hey,
ich bin auch noch da!" Das tut schon weh.Andererseits kann ich mir gar nicht vorstellen, wie es
der Mutter gehen muss nach einem solchen Verlust, und ich hoffe sehr dass ich es auch nie
muss.Da die Geschichte ausschließlich der viewpoint von Harry ist, erfahren wir auch nie was
once wirklich mit Dan passiert ist. Das ist zwar eine logische Konsequenz der Erzählweise, lässt
mich als Leser aber etwas unbefriedigt zurück.
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