katie_king's review against another edition
4.0
I remember reading this book back in high school, and it felt as solid real to me as the metal shelves in the dark wood-paneled room that held the library stacks, even though the setting and experiences of young Rose were far removed from my own experience.
Quote from Lattany's bio follows:
'Henrietta Buck of the Christian Science Monitor, says, “The book sounds like social tract. It’s not.
It is a story of people who have had the doors slammed on them once too often, who have become hobbled by the moral deformities of a fabricated society. The life they lead is like an immense, maca- bre charade, which act out conditions of privilege and security. When the unreality becomes too great, then the police arrive, bottles fly, the nightsticks crack, and the rest of the world watches from the safe side of the invisible boundary.” '
Quote from Lattany's bio follows:
'Henrietta Buck of the Christian Science Monitor, says, “The book sounds like social tract. It’s not.
It is a story of people who have had the doors slammed on them once too often, who have become hobbled by the moral deformities of a fabricated society. The life they lead is like an immense, maca- bre charade, which act out conditions of privilege and security. When the unreality becomes too great, then the police arrive, bottles fly, the nightsticks crack, and the rest of the world watches from the safe side of the invisible boundary.” '
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