Qualities of Light
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (986 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1935226061 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a tender and lively coming-of-age tale told with delicate insight. But both are tangled in family problems beyond their powers to solve. Mary Carroll Moore has given us a romance etched in moonlight--the one we all wish we had had in our seventeenth summer. Molly, the artist, takes on heavy guilt for an accident that almost killed her beloved little brother and struggles with the sad prospect of her parents' possible divorce. We are transported back to that perilous passage, so well remembered, through adolescence and first love. One is beautiful, confident, and athletic; the other is artistically gifted, a skilled observer of family and friends. --Ann Bannon . How many writers have caught that lightning-in-a-bottle that is young love? And made it glow with all the sweetness, sweat, and anguished joy that characterize it? Very few, I venture to guess, but here's one to add to the list and love. On the con
"Good, but written strangely." according to Michael Rispoli. I had a really hard time following the sentence structure of the author. But it was a really nice story overall.. Marvelous, Masterful Book You know a book is wonderful when you reach for it on first waking, though it makes you late; when you can hardly wait for the evening to come so you can read more; and when you're disappointed that it's ended. I can't imagine how Mary Carroll Moore wrote this -- so many interweaving plots, such engaging characters, such vivid prose. She is truly a master.Qualities of Light is a beautiful book, and I love it. I'm waiting for the movie to come out.. A serious coming of age story Sage320 It was supposed to be a routine summer at Cloud Lake, but the Fisher family is coming unraveled. When Molly and her little brother Sammy disobeyed their father and took a boat out onto the lake, they had no way of knowing that an accident would leave Sammy lying in a hospital bed in a coma. Their parents' marriage was tenuous at best with their father absorbed in his painting and mother waiting for a chance to take off in her plane and leave them all behind. Instead, her par
But they occupy their own elliptical orbits, grief-stricken, distant, estranged from her and from each other. Into Molly's anguish and solitude intrude two people: Chad, whose awkward courtship meets her even more awkward response; and Zoe, at seventeen a year older than Molly, and seemingly light years ahead in the frankness of her interest and the boldness of her pursuit of Molly. Qualities of Light explores the budding of unexpected romance in the face of family tragedy, the forging of a new relationship between a daughter and her gifted, difficult parents, and an adolescent girl's confrontation with her own qualities of light and darkness.. An early summer morning, a forbidden boat ride. Steeped in self-blame, she reaches out to her parents. An accident that puts Molly Fisher's seven-year-old brother in a coma. And Molly's life plummets out of orbit