Stone-Faced Boy, The (p)Ages: 9-12 Grades: GR. 4-6 Pages: 92 List Price: $8.95 Cover: Paperback Published: 9/1/2005 ISBN: 1-932425-42-X ISBN-13: 978-1-932425-42-0 |
A boy spends his life concealing his emotions, hiding behind a straight face. Reviews"Front Street continues to republish singular novels with unquestionable literary merit. This season brings two more. Gus Oliver, the middle child in a large and noisy family, is the titular character of Paula Fox's The Stone-Faced Boy (1968), a probing novel about the masks we hide behind. ... Fox's spare prose and eye for the telling detail propel this quiet story to its satisfying conclusion." |
