Duck edition by Stephen Parolini Literature Fiction eBooks
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When the ringing school bell signals an air raid drill at Hill Elementary, Thomas Lingonberry is the only student who follows protocol, climbing under his desk and curling into a ball to protect himself from the Red Menace. Everyone else races outside thinking it’s a fire drill. This wouldn’t have mattered at all, but for the fact that a Martin B-26 Marauder carrying two improperly-attached bombs was passing overhead at the very same time.
Duck is a novelette-sized coming-of-age story that recalls pivotal moments in Thomas Lingonberry’s life, beginning with the events of April 16, 1957 - the day he earned the nickname “Bomb Boy.”
BONUS "Duck" now includes the short-short stories "Hope" and "Magic," which aren't available anywhere else.
Stephen Parolini is a full-time freelance editor and author who shares a small Colorado apartment with an ever-growing array of imagined characters, handcrafted daydreams, and the occasional misguided spider. He is currently writing at least three different novels, but that number will likely have doubled by the time he revises this bio.
Duck edition by Stephen Parolini Literature Fiction eBooks
You know it's gonna be good when you break open a book on your iPhone while waiting for your son to finish using the bathroom in Home Depot and in the three minutes it takes him to come back out you're already so absorbed you've forgotten where you are.I'm not sure what I expected, but what I got was enormous. I feel like someone opened up my veins and poured an entire life into them in just a couple of hours. I feel dizzy.
You could not possibly in a thousand years regret the meager sum of a single dollar to enjoy this story. It's brilliant written, bold yet subtle, and filled with characters that are so charming and bizarre and imperfect and full I'm having a very difficult time coping with the fact that they don't actually exist.
Highly, highly recommended.
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Duck edition by Stephen Parolini Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Short story here, but it doesn't mean it isn't a hell of a story!! I loved it! It gave me a peculiar children/burtonesq feel, and I enjoyed the hole thing!!!
It's amazing how much Stephen Parolini conveyed in this short novel... The complications of family relationships, the confusions of first love, and the workings of the heart. Worth a read!
Parolini's novella depicts a near-tragedy at a small school in the late 1950's and how it shapes the life of fourth-grade boy well into adulthood. In the midst of the suffering, uncertainty and confusion, Parolini's character clips away at the more depressive episodes of his live with the pruning shears of humor, tossing away the remnants, thorns and all. Readers will appreciate the truthful way the story dispels the myth of "perfect," "normal," and "family," and creates relatable characters that persevere through the most extraordinary of experiences. . . . growing up.
This is a fast, one-sitting, satisfying read. A touching coming-of-age story with unforgettable characters and subtle wisdom coming believably from the mouths of children. The first chapter of this story drew me in like a magnet because of the young boy who seemed real and in need of my personal care and attention. I felt that I couldn't turn away from him for a moment. The unusual circumstances of the opening scenes made me wonder if the rest of the story would be realistic. It totally was. After a while, the coincidence of the opening felt grounded in reality - rock solid. Five stars for this gripping piece of literary fiction. I found two minor typos but didn't care at all because the story was so compelling and the characters so real.
"A man loves a thing. That don't mean it's gotta love him back." A line in the film From Here to Eternity that I think best exemplifies the pathos experienced by Thomas, the protagonist of Duck. The tale is haunting, permeated by the bittersweet suadade that is in our human nature to cling to. If the tale makes the reader sad, wistfull, confused, it also instills in one the gratitude that we are privileged enough to feel such deep emotions at all. The story contains a friend and high school sweetheart whose heartbreaking hollowness made even this reader fall in love with her. She, along with the magnetism of the aching voids in Thoma's life, help draw him out from himself. Eucatastrophe - that good can come paradoxically from out tragedy, and that virtue, failings, and sin are forced to walk hand in hand in this world are clearly demonstrated. With life often a blurred confusion of emotion, this story shows us that though it may be a hard truth to swallow, love and forgiveness are its only remedy.
Duck didn't work terribly well for me, because I prefer things a bit darker and more startling. That's a personal preference though and should not be taken to reflect on the caliber of the author's work.
I was impressed with the two bonus shorts at the end - "Hope" and "Magic". It's quite challenging to put any sort of meaning into so few pages. They are also more in keeping with my literary aesthetic. In particular, I was fond of "Magic". It lingers. I like a short to swirl around in your mind for a bit after you're done. It was my favorite of the three pieces in this book.
This is a coming-of-age, coming-of-understanding, coming-of-forgiveness novella—and a really quite good one. The tale starts with the improbable, yet somehow perfectly realistic situation of an unexploded bomb crashing into a school and ending up on a young student's desk during a drill. This student happened to be under his desk at the time because he was the only one who did the drill correctly. Perfect, I thought. That's *exactly* how life happens.
Even given the improbable yet perfect opening scenario, "Duck" didn't feel as manipulative nor as discomfitting as some coming-of-age stories do (to me). Much of the credit for that probably goes to the author's writing style, which is engaging yet somehow comforting. I had no idea what the tale was about or what sort of things I'd be encountering, so I read tentatively at first. By the time I was done, my journey of growing confidence and trust as the reader felt like a part of the story.
You know it's gonna be good when you break open a book on your iPhone while waiting for your son to finish using the bathroom in Home Depot and in the three minutes it takes him to come back out you're already so absorbed you've forgotten where you are.
I'm not sure what I expected, but what I got was enormous. I feel like someone opened up my veins and poured an entire life into them in just a couple of hours. I feel dizzy.
You could not possibly in a thousand years regret the meager sum of a single dollar to enjoy this story. It's brilliant written, bold yet subtle, and filled with characters that are so charming and bizarre and imperfect and full I'm having a very difficult time coping with the fact that they don't actually exist.
Highly, highly recommended.
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