Price: $15.99
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307458223
Release: 10.5.2010
Juvenile Fiction - Action & Adventure
The Charlatan's Boy
by Noah Arsenault
February 24, 2011
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I am getting a great hankering for the southern style of writing. Roger's character development is reminiscent of the style of Flannery O'Connor. The southern grammar and vocabulary were very entertaining!
I found it interesting that Grady had very wise insights, such as when he reflected that townspeople can learn more about themselves from their neighbors than from a "phrenologist," someone who can determine character traits from indentations in a skull. He only thinks of the feechie act as "an honest trade" while he thinks he really is a feechie. For a show assistant, he is quite honest.
Rogers' characters are great fun! Ranging from the trickster Floyd, to the compassionate Short Fronie, to the whooping drovers, I had a glimpse of a different world.
I recommend this to anyone who likes adventure and a show, because this book is full of it!
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