The Borrower “ Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower. Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious.” Richard Russo» Pulitzer Prize winning and bestselling author of That Old Cape Magic and Empire Falls. “How could any reader of any age resist Rebecca Makkai’s charming The Borrower, a novel that tracks the relationship between a something librarian and a year-old boy with punitive parents. Part caper (the two take off on a road trip that has moments of danger but never turns dark), part coming-of-age (and not just for the kid!) story, it manages, with good humor and wry self-knowledge, to read our minds.”—/5(). · What is The Borrower about? It’s about a librarian who inadvertently kidnaps a child. How do you inadvertently kidnap someone? I’m going to refuse to answer that, to trick you into buying the book. How long did it take you to write The Borrower? I wish I Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
The Borrower, by Rebecca Makkai Most of the time, I vaguely despise the concept of 'rewriting' a famous book. Ok, Margaret Atwood famously did it with The Penelopiad, but she was a well-established author making a feminist point, and obviously not compensating for an inability to think of her own story. THE BORROWER. by Rebecca Makkai ‧ RELEASE DATE: J. A children's librarian in Hannibal, Mo., finds herself on a long, strange trip in Makkai's ruminative first novel. Lucy Hull feels sorry for Ian Drake, the most devoted attendee of her read-aloud on Friday afternoons. Ian's reading is severely circumscribed by his mother's. The Borrower Book Summary and Study Guide. Rebecca Makkai Booklist Rebecca Makkai Message Board. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Borrower; A small-town librarian leaves her life behind to save a boy. Lucy Hull, a children's librarian at a small library in a small town, lives alone and, in her late twenties, thinks that is what she wants.
The Borrower. by Rebecca Makkai. ebook. Read a sample Read a sample Description; Details; Reviews; In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and. "The Borrower" By Rebecca Makkai Viking, pg., $ Wendy Smith, a contributing editor at The American Scholar, reviews books frequently for the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Borrower A small-town librarian leaves her life behind to save a boy. Lucy Hull, a children's librarian at a small library in a small town, lives alone and, in her late twenties, thinks that is what she wants.
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