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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Wastelandby Francesca Lia Block
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Review:"Most of Block's books are iridescent rainbows of prose, no matter how knotty the scenario. This one...is instead darkly opalescent. The language is simpler, but cuts deep." Kirkus Reviews Review:"A plot surprise at the end seems patched on, and a long quote from T. S. Eliot's 'Wasteland' may be beyond many readers. It's Block's simple, beautiful words that reveal the loving connection — and then the fragments." Hazel Rochman, Booklist Review:"While Block's prose is as poetic and lush as always, her narrative shifts may confuse less sophisticated readers....Still, Block might reach a larger audience with this book..." School Library Journal Review:"Block treads carefully around a taboo love, revealing the complexity of human emotion, but showing us that instinct is often more reliable than we know." Michele Winship, KLIATT Synopsis:Lex and his sister, Marina, were inseparable. But now that Lex is gone, Marina will never be truly complete until she faces the past that haunts her.
Synopsis:When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. About the AuthorFrancesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of the Weetzie Bat series and the novel Ruby. She lives in Los Angeles. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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