Are there still paperboys anymore? Around my town papers are delivered by folks in cars. I don't know if it is like that everywhere! I accidentally listed to
The Paperboy thinking it was
Paperboy and I wondered why this was so short! I was worried that I had listened to another one of those graphic novels! But then I kept asking people who read
Paperboy, "Is it a graphic novel? Are there a lot of pictures?" and the answer was always, "Um...no." So then I figured out that I had a completely different book!
Paperboy was really, really good. It was a slice-of-life kinda book. A look at life in a neighborhood in
Memphis in
1959 from the POV of a young teen boy who has a
stutter. I loved, loved this kid's family and the kid himself.
Vince Vawter has an author's note at the end. What a wonderful, wonderful book. I also learned what a
U.S. Merchant Marine is!
No comments:
Post a Comment