Boondocking [Hardcover]

Tricia Bauer (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Co.; First Edition edition (1997)
• ASIN: B001HTBD3Q
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Tricia Bauer was born and grew up in Baltimore. She began writing as a young girl and later studied poetry before turning to fiction writing. Tricia has written for newspapers and magazines, and held editorial and marketing jobs with different children's book publishers. Her stories have appeared in literary journals and anthologies throughout the U.S., and her travel features have been published in The New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

Her first book, Working Women and Other Stories, was published in 1995 to critical acclaim. Boondocking was first published in hardcover in 1997, and was selected for the Discover Great New Writers program and named one of Library Journal's Best First Novels. Hollywood & Hardwood, her second novel, was published in the spring of 1999, and Shelterbelt followed in the fall of 2000.

Tricia was awarded the first annual FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for her novel Father Flashes, which will be published in March 2011 by Fiction Collective Two, an imprint of University of Alabama Press.

She lives in Connecticut with her husband, playwright Bill Bozzone, and their daughter Lia.

www.triciabauer.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An often hilarious, often heartbreaking road trip., August 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Boondocking: A Novel (Hardcover)

The characters in Tricia Bauer's wonderful novel make us laugh and break our hearts. Grandparents Sylvia and Clayton, with their grandaughter Rita in tow, set out in a travel trailer to avoid Rita's dangerous and unstable father. What follows is not simply a tale of suspence as the trio seems to always stay one step ahead of their pursuer, but a fable about growing up in modern-day America. Bauer's voice is strong and certain and the love she shows for her characters is always in evidence. Boondocking is a hard book to put down and one you wish could, like the trailer itself, just continue on and on.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What grandparents do for their grandbabies, April 12, 2001

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Janice M. Hansen (California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boondocking: A Novel (Hardcover)

The message of this story is of love for your children's children. How tragic it is for Sylvia and Clayton when their daughter dies and they suspect their son in law behind it all. Attempting to spare their dear grandchild, they hitch up an RV and off they go in their desperate attempt to separate their grandchild from the pursuing son-in law.

Eventually, after many adventures on the road in an RV trailer, they must make amends and their grandchild has grown and the questions and curiosities need to be examined. After years of trailering and dodging the inevitable, they must make peace with the past, and look to the future together.

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It made me uneasy, June 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Boondocking (Paperback)

I felt as though I was missing something all the way through the book. Maybe we have become insensitive, but I felt as though they were running from some horrific murder, when really it was a car accident. I know drugs were involved, but I felt the daughter must have been aware of the drug use and put herself in that situation. Also, as a person in my early thirties, I didn't understand the paranoia they felt. I was really disappointed in the end when she slept with a man, it was totally uncharacteristic for her.