Mind's Eye
Synopsis
Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal chord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world, the only resource they have left is their imagination. As Elva and Courtney go on a fantasy trip to Italy (accompanied by Elva's long dead husband and guided by a 1910 travel book) , Elva shows Courtney a new way to envision love. But to accept it, and the gift of the imagination, Courtney must make the trip her own--even if she destroys the art Elva holds most dear. Written entirely in dialogue, Mind's Eye can be performed as reader's theater, but it is a fully satisfying novel. In this extraordinarily innovative, profound, and yet readable book Paul Fleischman makes us all feel what a powerful--and dangerous--tool the imagination can be.
- Derechos de autor:
- 1999 Paul Fleischman
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780805063141
- Publisher:
- Henry Holt & Company
- Date of Addition:
- 2020-12-02T16:21:29Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.