![]() Their love is believable and thrilling, but it isn’t simple: Eleanor’s family is broke, and her stepfather abuses her mother. Adult author Rowell (Attachments), making her YA debut, has a gift for showing what Eleanor and Park, who tell the story in alternating segments, like and admire about each other. And slowly, tantalizingly, something more. When he realizes she’s reading his comics over his shoulder, a silent friendship is born. Too nice not to let her sit next to him, Park is alternately resentful and guilty for not being kinder to her. Tall, with bright red hair and a dress code all her own, she’s an instant target. Half-Korean sophomore Park Sheridan is getting through high school by lying low, listening to the Smiths (it’s 1986), reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen comics, never raising his hand in class, and avoiding the kids he grew up with. ![]()
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other sentences have simply been rewritten for no apparent reason.įrom 1937, Mrs Allerton's character complains about a gang of children harassing her and explains "they come back and look, and look, and their eyes are just disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don't believe that I really love children.” In the same book, a young woman having "a gypsy style" simply becomes a "young woman". , Agatha Christie's first novel published in 1920, when Hercule Poirot points out that a character is "Jew", the word no longer appears in the new version. Thus, any mention made of a black, Jewish or gypsy person was cut off. 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