Readers are going to want more from this author. The author has a lot to say on a wide variety of subjects: race relations, child rearing, sports, class conflict, and more, but he does so in a book that is at once exciting, moving, strikingly. Paul, the younger brother, can see the world.
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Smart, adaptable, and anchored by a strong sense of self-worth, Paul makes a memorable protagonist in a cast of vividly drawn characters multiple yet taut plotlines lead to a series of gripping climaxes and revelations. This complex, multilayered novel is impossible to synopsize briefly - theres just too much going on, and every bit of it is engrossing and powerful. In Edward Bloors novel, Tangerine the brothers are nothing alike. Bloor fills in the setting with authority and broad irony: In Tangerine County, Florida, groves are being replaced by poorly designed housing developments through which drift clouds of mosquitoes and smoke from unquenchable "muck fires." Football is so big that not even the death of a player struck by lightning during practice gets in the way of NFL dreams: no one, including Paul's parents, see how vicious and amoral his brother, Erik, is off the field. It turns out to be a rough place, where "minorities are in the majority," but Paul fits himself in, playing on the superb soccer team (as a substitute for one of the female stars of the group) and pitching in when a freeze threatens the citrus groves. Siehe Suchergebnissefür diesen Autor Edward Bloor(Autor) 4,6 von 5 Sternen1. After a giant sinkhole swallows much of the ramshackle school, Paul is able to transfer to another school where, with some parental collusion, he can keep his legal status a secret. Februar 2007 Englisch Ausgabe von Edward Bloor (Autor) Entdecken Sie Edward Bloor bei Amazon Finden Sie alle Bücher, Informationen zum Autorund mehr. On one hand it is a soccer story on another hand it is a story about race and the urban school setting also it's a story about a boy who can't remember something bad that happened to him long ago. Paul's thick lenses don't keep him from being a first-rate soccer goalie, but they do make him, willy-nilly, a "handicapped" student and thus, according to his new coach, ineligible to play. Edward Bloor's novel, Tangerine, has too many different plots and themes to have an identity.
A legally blind seventh-grader with clearer vision than most wins acceptance in a new Florida school as his football-hero older brother self-destructs in this absorbing, multi-stranded debut.
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