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Unseen Companion (Hardcover)

by Denise Gosliner Orenstein (Author) "This is the spring we all hear about the wild man locked up in the Bethel own jail..." (more)
Key Phrases: receiving home, picture imagination, Dove Alexie, Lorraine Hobbs, Thelma Cooke (more...)
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*Starred Review* Gr. 10-12. In this kaleidoscopic first-person novel, set in 1968 and 1969, the point of view shifts from one Alaskan teenager to another. Each contributes something to the shadowy portrayal of the novel's central, tragic figure, Dove Alexie, a 16-year-old "mixed-breed" who was imprisoned for striking a white teacher, beaten by his racist jailer, and lost in the system until the story's end. The narrators are two Gussak (Caucasian) girls who live with their single-parent families in Bethel, Alaska, and a Yup'ik (native Alaskan) girl and boy sent away from their communities to live in a boarding school. Though their tales revolve around pivotal questions concerning Dove's history and his fate, it is their own lives that are more sharply in focus and fully developed here. In distinctive voices, the four narrators tell their own involving stories, separate from each other at the beginning, but increasingly interconnected. Hope, love, and occasional humor provide welcome relief from the sadness and despair that pulse through the characters' lives as they deal with separation, anger, alienation, blackmail, rape, and death. Slowly the pieces of narrative fall into place to form an intricately patterned mosaic. The appended glossary defines Alaskan terms. A sensitive observer and a compelling storyteller, Orenstein offers a novel that is both touching and harsh. Carolyn Phelan
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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: HarperTempest; 1st ed edition (September 16, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060520566
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060520564
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,643,434 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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