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Outcast [Import] [Hardcover]

R Sutcliff (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford: OUP (New Oxford Library edition), 1980; 1st thus;; 1ST edition (1980)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 019277106X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192771063
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,729,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Rosemary Sutcliff wrote more than 40 historical novels for young adults-including The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, The Sword and the Circle, and Black Ships Before Troy-five adult novels, and several books of nonfiction.

 

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rosemary Sutcliff has done it again!, March 28, 2000
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This review is from: Outcast (Paperback)
Once again, Rosemary Sutcliff has written an outstanding work of fiction! Enticing, suspensful, and all-around wonderful, Outcast is the best book I have read in a long time. Outcast is the story of a young boy named Beric, who is raised in the village of a celtic tribe living in Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest. However, Beric is actually a Roman child, whose parents died in a shipwreck and who was rescued by a kind-hearted Celt and then adopted. But when the village has a series of bad turns, the local druid manages to convince the chief that Beric is the cause of all the trouble. Exiled from the only life he has known, Beric must learn to survive in the harsh Roman world that is so different from his own. And things take a turn for the worse when Beric falls into the hands of a slave trader! Outcast is a refreshing historical novel that gives startling insight into the ancient cultures of Britain. This one is definately a keeper!
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Beric must begin his life as an outcast..., June 6, 2002
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This review is from: Outcast (Paperback)
"Outcast" is an excellent literary composition that tells the tale of Beric, who is branded as cursed by a druid since he was in a frightful shipwreck whilst he was only a newborn child, and was the solitary survivior.
So the tribe that have taken in Beric are insistant that the holy beings in which they place their faith are unhappy with them for this, because Beric is a red-crest.
I found parts of the book deeply disturbing and so would reccomend any easily - unsettled reader of my age to be prepared before you read it.
Nevertheless Rosemary Sutcliff vividly describes every needed detail without overbalancing action with description.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Roman British History, April 25, 2001
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Tina Gardner (Stamford, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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I really enjoyed this book. I have always been interested in this period of British history. This book is too scary for young children: I would not recommend it for a child less than 10 years of age. The Outcast is a Roman boy, found nearly dead on a beach after a shipwreck, fostered by a Celtic family. He is thrown out of his tribe when a series of misfortunes convinces some in the village that they have offended their gods by harboring a Roman. Going to the Roman village, he is captured by slavers, and a truly horrible four years as a slave begins. The book reveals the Horror That Was Rome, when we have too often heard only of the Glory.
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THE gale, which had lulled for a little while, came swooping back with a shriek and a beating as of great wings against the village that crouched on the bare hill-shoulder, huddling close to the ground, as though for safety. Read the first page
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