Roger E Carrier
Paperback | Pages: 312 pages Rating: 4.67 | 76 Users | 65 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Finding Sagrado |
| ISBN: | 1462861954 (ISBN13: 9781462861958) |
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A Teenage Odyssey for Adults and Mature Teenage Readers Roger E. Carrier tells an engaging story of youth, redemption, and sexual coming of age in New Mexico. In 1971, seventeen-year-old Shane Russell makes a well-planned escape from a Michigan winter and sets off on a 2,000-mile adventure in search of a town that exists only between the covers of Richard Bradford’s famous New Mexico novel Red Sky at Morning (J.B. Lippincott, 1968). Driven to recreate the nude scenes and vivid characters in Bradford’s fictional town of Sagrado, Shane forever touches the lives of his widowed landlady, the detective hired to find him, and his new friends at a colorful high school deep in the Land of Enchantment. Against the backdrop of his father’s death in Vietnam and life with his stepmother’s new boyfriend, Shane flees the painful realities of his life. In doing so, he finds a place where bats fly and love heals the wounds of the human spirit. He also encounters Mark Twain’s great truth: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”Particularize Appertaining To Books Finding Sagrado
| Title | : | Finding Sagrado |
| Author | : | Roger E Carrier |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 312 pages |
| Published | : | January 29th 2014 by Xlibris Us (first published January 28th 2014) |
| Categories | : | Free Books. Download Books |
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Ratings: 4.67 From 76 Users | 65 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books Finding Sagrado
At fist I got this book completely wrong. I thought main charachter has such a good luck that nothing bad happened to him troughout entire book. After discussing this book at my book club we figured something out. Shane is constantly struggling with grief. Actually every charachter in book is dealing with this monster in his/her own way.If the first few pages of a novel do not suck me in, I usually dont read further, but Finding Sagrado had me engrossed from the very beginning. The plot is unpredictable and the characters are well developed and have layers that are peeled with each turn of a page. The story starts with a teenager having to deal with the loss of his parents, but manage to find solace in one of his favorite books, which has many similarities to his own life. He sets off in pursuit of his personal Sagrado and on
"Finding Sagrado" is a fantastic read! Shane, the protagonist wishes to find his personal Sagrado, a fictional town from his favourite book. And find he does, along with some really nice friends and mentors, similar to the characters from his beloved novel but different in so many aspects and a lot better, because they belong in his life. I appreciated the optimistic tone of the book, the adventure started a bit slowly but once it got going I was all in. Roger Carrier is a great storyteller and
It was an amazing book. Book that I could not let go. Once you start reading it you have to finish. You have no choice. It sucks you into its world.Excellent plot and amazingly easy to relate to characters. I began to wonder should I do the same as Shane and try to find something I was missing in my own life. Maybe run away to find a place of my dreams. Oh, wouldn't it be nice to find so many different people that are so eager to help you. Anyhow, I really enjoyed reading it, it was fun, easy to
After reading the book, and having English as my second language I would recommend this book to anyone learning the language at an intermediate or even advance beginner as the language used is not hard to understand.Story-wise I like the book. Even if you prefer other genres with more action or science fiction, the author did a good job at keeping it simple while having a meaning, something for the readers to think about. The story start with a teenager trouble by the death of his parents, his
"Finding Sagrado" is a very interesting read. I picked it up not knowing what to expect, but I found myself identifying with Shane and his adventures and the risks he takes all for the sake of his dreams and desires. Great novel for youth and adults alike!
Finding Sagrado is a novel placed in America in the time of the Vietnam war. It is a story about easy to like teenage boy, who after his father's death in Vietnam and his stepmothers decision to start dating, decides to escape from home, trying to find himself in the pages of his favorite novel. We can easily follow his emotional journey, adventures and interaction with the rest of the characters of the novel. An easy to read novel, novel about youth, love, independence and all the challenges
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