| Sweet Dream Baby Contributor(s): Watson, Sterling (Author) |
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ISBN: 1402201486 ISBN-13: 9781402201486 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2004 Annotation: Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted, gossip-driven town. Delia's secrets go beyond what Travis can understand, but he believes that he alone can save her--a belief that not only forces him to grow up fast, but one that builds to a dangerous and disturbing climax. In trying to free Delia from her past, Travis leads her into a shocking present and a most uncertain future. In a work at once honest, chilling and compulsively addictive, author Sterling Watson has created a time and place where rock ?n? roll hums from AM radios, steam rises from a secluded riverbed and violent summer storms threaten the peace of silent nights. Watson's characters are brought vividly to life through Travis's touching, powerful and intensely personal voice. A dark and evocative coming of age tale, Sweet Dream Baby begins steeped in innocence and ends in a dramatically different place. ?I can?t remember a book that sneaked up and grabbed me the way Sweet Dream Baby did. It's a real shocker by a very good writer.? --Elmore Leonard ?Sterling Watson's Sweet Dream Baby is one of the finest novels I?ve read in years, an incandescent blend of gothic noir, Faulknerian dreamscape and bittersweet coming-of-age story. Months after reading it, it haunts me still.? -Dennis Lehane ?Sterling Watson's Sweet Dream Baby brings us the words and music, the tastes and smells of that special time-as well as its heartache and secret shame. I wasutterly absorbed in these fierce pages.? -Fred Chappell, author of Look Back All the Green Valley ?Sweet Dream Baby is a beautiful book. Sterling Watson is surehanded and telling in a story that is as elegiac as it is gripping.? -Michael Connelly, author of Chasing the Dime "Some delicious page-turning."-Kirkus Reviews A Book Sense 76 Top 10 Selection Named to Top Ten Crime Books of 2002, Toronto Globe and Mail "Watson proves himself a first-rate storyteller."-Publishers Weekly "A comprehensive work of art that is as thought-provoking as it is disturbing."-Orlando Sentinel |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002003852 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.11" W x 7.94" (0.80 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Seasonal - Summer - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sent to live in the humidity of rural Florida with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old Aunt Delia for the summer, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. Captivated by Delia, Travis watches her attempt to find a place for herself in the socially stunted, gossip-driven town. Delia's secrets go beyond what Travis can understand, but he believes that he alone can save her--a belief that not only forces him to grow up fast, but one that builds to a dangerous and disturbing climax. In trying to free Delia from her past, Travis leads her into a shocking present and a most uncertain future. In a work at once honest, chilling and compulsively addictive, author Sterling Watson has created a time and place where rock 'n' roll hums from AM radios, steam rises from a secluded riverbed and violent summer storms threaten the peace of silent nights. Watson's characters are brought vividly to life through Travis's touching, powerful and intensely personal voice. A dark and evocative coming of age tale, Sweet Dream Baby begins steeped in innocence and ends in a dramatically different place. I can't remember a book that sneaked up and grabbed me the way Sweet Dream Baby did. It's a real shocker by a very good writer. --Elmore Leonard Sterling Watson's Sweet Dream Baby is one of the finest novels I've read in years, an incandescent blend of gothic noir, Faulknerian dreamscape and bittersweet coming-of-age story. Months after reading it, it haunts me still. --Dennis Lehane Sterling Watson's Sweet Dream Baby brings us the words and music, the tastes and smells of that special time--as well as its heartache and secret shame. I was utterly absorbed in these fierce pages. --Fred Chappell, author of Look Back All the Green Valley Sweet Dream Baby is a beautiful book. Sterling Watson is surehanded and telling in a story that is as elegiac as it is gripping. --Michael Connelly, author of Chasing the Dime Some delicious page-turning.--Kirkus Reviews A Book Sense 76 Top 10 Selection Named to Top Ten Crime Books of 2002, Toronto Globe and Mail Watson proves himself a first-rate storyteller.--Publishers Weekly A comprehensive work of art that is as thought-provoking as it is disturbing.--Orlando Sentinel |