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Almond, David

Counting Stars

209 pp. | Delacorte | April, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-385-72946-4 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-385-90034-1 $$18.99
(2) YA A collection of eighteen stories of Almond's childhood, real and imaginatively reinvented, suggests that the gritty fabulism of his fiction has roots in the rural Catholicism in which he was raised. The stories skip about chronologically, imitating the randomness of memory, but at the heart of each beats a persistent pulse. The strongest tales are those that convey the elusive succor of Catholic mysticism within the strict setting of a moral tale.
Reviewer: Grace McKinney | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2002

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