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Kennedy
The sequel to Allen Frost's "Roosevelt" novel, this adventure is set twenty years later, in 1962, on a rainy farm in Washington state. Featuring two weeks during the mythic Kennedy times, a boy is witness to the world of rockets, love and death. A book for all ages. Beautifullly illustrated throughout.
252 pages, Paperback
Published August 14, 2018
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September 5, 2018
Allen Frost’s new novel KENNEDY, moves us 20 years ahead from his previous ROOSEVELT into the week around the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. “Vintage” best describes this intimate tale of a young boy and his relationships with life in Bellingham, Washington, with girls, and with his much-loved grandparents. As in all of Frost’s work, the poet emerges in the details and in the swing of the prose, capturing youthful sensitivity and the emotions around love and loss.
The highway coming through his town forebodes disruption and change. “The machinery was already at work on the highway. It made a low rumble and clank like the engine room of a ferryboat.” His metaphors are little treasures found along the trail of this book’s details and plot. When he allows his mind to focus on a young classmate, “The yellow pencil drifted off course from words about the Colony and before he knew it, it had written Caroline. Her name had appeared so out of the blue it looked like someone had planted a flower in all those rows of lead colored words.”
When his grandmother faces a great loss, he finds her changed, “She seemed to float out; he felt like he was holding onto a paper version of his grandmother. She could have been folded origami. If the breeze was any stronger, she might be swept into the sky.” These marvelous lines are woven around a simple plot that includes the words of then President John F. Kennedy whose courage and character balance out the losses then, as it still does today.
Thanks to Fred Stolt for his classic illustrations. KENNEDY is woven in history and perspective and is a book for all time
The highway coming through his town forebodes disruption and change. “The machinery was already at work on the highway. It made a low rumble and clank like the engine room of a ferryboat.” His metaphors are little treasures found along the trail of this book’s details and plot. When he allows his mind to focus on a young classmate, “The yellow pencil drifted off course from words about the Colony and before he knew it, it had written Caroline. Her name had appeared so out of the blue it looked like someone had planted a flower in all those rows of lead colored words.”
When his grandmother faces a great loss, he finds her changed, “She seemed to float out; he felt like he was holding onto a paper version of his grandmother. She could have been folded origami. If the breeze was any stronger, she might be swept into the sky.” These marvelous lines are woven around a simple plot that includes the words of then President John F. Kennedy whose courage and character balance out the losses then, as it still does today.
Thanks to Fred Stolt for his classic illustrations. KENNEDY is woven in history and perspective and is a book for all time
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