Wild Light: A printmaker’s day and night

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Wild Light: A printmaker’s day and night

Wild Light: A printmaker’s day and night

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Heartfelt and deeply moving…a book that readers will unhesitatingly take to theirhearts.”— Booklist, starred review

I have confirmed a new quirk of mine. When I finish a really good book, I clap my hands as if I just watched a performance… and boy did I clap my hands for this! It perfectly encapsulates what it feels like to be the outsider. What it feels like to be lost. To love. To grieve. To heal. A beautiful book and my favorite of Jeff's novels since his debut, which will forever hold a spot on my shelf of all-time favorite reads.You are not a creature of grief. You are not a congregation of wounds. You are not the sum of your losses. Your skin is not your scars. Your life is yours, and it can be new and wondrous. Remember that."

The character development for Cash took way longer than I wanted. I wanted to be positive and just say “oh, he’s just humble,” but then he started to project the low self-esteem onto Delaney and I was not happy about that. And the fact that Delaney had to say I love you before Cash realized it himself was just so annoying honestly. This might be controversial: Cash didn’t deserve Delaney…and that’s on period. This was way too pure for me. I really really loved it. It was still hard to rate because I did have some issues, but I still felt it deserved 5 stars. The poems were so good, and some parts that were not poems still felt like reading poetry. In a word: sublime.This gift of a book will leave you with fiery, incandescent hope in your chest.”— Emily Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read

When you grow up with ugliness and corruption, you surrender to beauty whenever and wherever you find it. You let it save you, if only for the time it takes for a snowflake to melt on your tongue or for the sun to sink below the horizon in a wildfire of clouds."

I knew this would be a difficult one for me to read. Like Cash, my grandpa was my best friend. He was the closest thing I had to a father figure. And, like Cash, the grief that came with losing someone who was always my person was suffocating. It felt like my head was being held underwater indefinitely. There was no drowning. That would imply the grief ceased after awhile. And…it just doesn’t. A novel with the soul of a poem.JeffZentnerproves yet again that he’s one of the most luminous voices writing for young people today.”— RandyRibay,author of National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing Cash doesn’t want to ride Delaney’s coattails, and with his grandfather’s emphysema worsening, he fears leaving Tennessee for a life he never imagined. But the thought of Delaney struggling all alone is also too much to bear. That's what Jeff does through his writing. He finds the "broken spots" and makes them beautiful. This book is special. The characters are special. And I hope you give this special book a chance. If you've never given contemporary fic a chance, I beg you to try Jeff's books. I'm not saying his books will all of a sudden make you love all contemporary, realistic fic...but I am saying that his books are remarkable and able to be loved and appreciated by every type of reader. Readers love good stories, and all of Jeff's stories are good.Delaney is a genius, she has discovered a mold in a cave and it has huge potential as a pharmaceutical, she's been offered a full scholarship in one of the most successful colleges around. She says she will only take it if her best friend Cash can come too on an equivalent scholarship. But leaving his grandparents, the life he thought he was going to have, but, which is unfulfilling is a huge step for Cash. He is torn and tortured by his decision to go. Bogs a bit in the middle and the ending's predictable, but still, did I mention how sweet and all-American these kids are? You'll want to adopt them -- and their poetry teacher practically does (I guess you can get away with this in private schools, but have my doubts).



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