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100 1 $aBrown, Carrie,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98104196
245 14 $aThe rope walk /$cCarrie Brown.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a321 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The Rope Walk brings us the story of a pivotal summer in the life of Alice, a redheaded tomboy and motherless girl who is beloved and protected by her five older brothers and her widower father, a professor of Shakespeare. On Memorial Day, at her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before. Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer. Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce with his middle-aged sister. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and, almost as quickly, find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial Kenneth. When the children begin a daily routine of reading aloud to the artist, who is losing his eyesight, they discover the journals of Lewis and Clark and decide to embark on their own wilderness adventure: they plan and secretly build a "rope walk" through the woods for Kenneth and in the process learn the first of many hard truths about the way adults see the world, no matter that they are often wrong." "Alice's narrative is a profound experience of innocence, of perception balanced between childhood and adulthood. The flying spark of new friendship, the first intimation of adult love, the consolation of devotion, which allow Alice and Theo to shed light in the midst of darkness and to find joy in mutual understanding."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGirls$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105027
650 0 $aAfrican American boys$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113945
650 0 $aFriendship in children$vFiction.
650 0 $aIntergenerational relations$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127385
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xPatients$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100927
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3552.R68529$iR68 2007