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Chambers, Aidan
4 Reviews
(1)
YA
The unnamed seventy-five-year-old narrator, a famous author, agrees to help Karl, a dyslexic eighteen-year-old boy, impress his book-loving girlfriend. While the author helps Karl work through much more than just his dating problems, Karl gives him impetus to write again after his wife's death. Chambers delivers yet another intellectually satisfying novel with equal parts philosophy and repartee.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2012
(2)
YA
This collection of sixteen short stories shakes up readers' expectations, both of the matter of adolescence and of the short fiction genre. In a broad sweep of topics--from gender to sexuality, power, religious belief, prostitution, justifiable homicide, work ethic, and materialism--Chambers writes with subtlety, brio, and respect for the intelligence of his young readers.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
May, 2011
(2)
YA
In this ambitious fictional memoir, nineteen-year-old Cordelia is assembling a book about herself as a gift for her soon-to-be-born daughter. Cordelia renders her adolescence with detail and immediacy, and while the novel, which employs a variety of forms, is a bit tricked out, it's warm in feeling, with an ending that will surprise readers with just how invested they have become.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2006
(1)
YA
Seventeen-year-old Jacob visits the family in Amsterdam that helped his grandfather during WWII. As he hears bits and pieces of a gripping story about a love affair between the young maiden, Geertrui, and an English soldier, Jacob recognizes himself in his grandparents and in the now-terminally-ill Geertrui, as well as in various companions and lovers. The reader closes the novel resolved not to prettify human choices, nor simplify them.
Reviewer: Grace McKinney
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2002
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