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Loading... The Yearlingby Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is probably one of my all time favorite books, although I can't read it very often. Too depressing & moving. It's a real emotional roller coaster for me, but does & did make me appreciate what I have. I grew up on a farm, about as different from the one in this book as you could get. I've also raised fawns. Their mothers would get hit [b:on the road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E8H3D1JSL._SL75_.jpg|3355573] & every year or two we'd get one to raise. We'd never see one for two years in a row, that we knew of, though. Depressing. (  ) jimmaclachlan | Sep 25, 2009 |  14 full color & innumerable B&W Illustrations throughout by N. C. Wyeth, including endpapers and pastedown to front cover. I think this is 1960 ed. Scribner's Illustrated Classics. ( ) kitchengardenbooks | Jul 21, 2009 | Great, Great book. Must read for anyone with an hankering for a good book. ( ) charlie68 | Jun 8, 2009 | I live on the site of Marjorie's old summer cottage on Lake Ontario. She lived here before she moved to Florida. What good karma! We even saved her old bathtub when we renovated. Loved the book. Love watching the movie with my grandchildren. (  )1  janetaileen | Feb 9, 2009 | The Yearling is a coming-of-age story about a boy, Jody, living in the Florida wilderness during the late 1800s. Over a year's time, Jody grows from a 12-year-old focused mostly on recreation, to a contributing family member working alongside his father to provide for his family. Jody's family lives off their crops, game hunted in the forest, and trades made in a nearby village. It's a tough life full of back-breaking labor. At Jody's side during most of the year is Flag, a fawn adopted after being found orphaned. As an only child, Jody longs for companionship, and his parents long resisted allowing him to adopt wild animals as pets. For some reason, in this case, they relented. Flag is a devoted pet, often at Jody's side, but as he grows it becomes more and more difficult to keep him on their farm. This book is well-written -- it won the Pulitzer Prize after all -- and the very descriptive language brought the landscape to life. However, I tired of the graphic hunting scenes, and I was never emotionally invested in Jody and his family. I was hoping for a more compelling read and was disappointed. (  )1 lindsacl | Oct 12, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0689846231, Paperback)Fighting off a pack of starving wolves, wrestling alligators in the swamp, romping with bear cubs, drawing off the venom of a giant rattlesnake bite with the heart of a fresh-killed deer--it's all in a day's work for the Baxter family of the Florida scrublands. But young Jody Baxter is not content with these electrifying escapades, or even with the cozy comfort of home with Pa and Ma. He wants a pet, a friend with whom he can share his quiet cogitations and his corn pone. Jody gets his pet, a frisky fawn he calls Flag, but that's not all. With Flag comes a year of life lessons, frolicking times, and achingly hard decisions. This powerful book is as compelling now as when it was written over 60 years ago. Read simply as a naturalist study of the Florida interior, it fascinates and entices. Add the heart-stopping adventure and heart-wrenching human elements, and this is a classic well worth its Pulitzer Prize. Earthy dialect and homespun wisdom season the story, giving it a unique and unforgettable flavor, and N.C. Wyeth's warm, soft illustrations capture an era of rough subsistence and sweet survival. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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