Adam of the Road

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Elizabeth Janet Gray: Adam of the Road (2006, Puffin)

317 pages

English language

Published Oct. 5, 2006 by Puffin.

ISBN:
978-0-14-240659-5
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OCLC Number:
72436714

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My wife and I read Adam of the Road together in the evenings, as part of our lasting enjoyment in Newberry award winners. This book was a worthy follow-up for our previous reading. It is a child-like story with simple pleasures, beautiful scenes, and a surprising attentiveness to placing the reader amidst the pilgrims, foods, attires, and stories of the middle-ages. Rather than melodrama and violence as is so common in today's stories, the story of Adam progresses along a child's hopes, friendships, dreams, admirations, losses, worries, and troubles. As a whole, the story manages to progress gently through a year of maturation and contain a number of gems of wisdom without ever betraying a didactic voice.

I wholly recommend "Adam of the Road."

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