The Tongues of Angels by Reynolds Price (1990)
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Overview: "I’m as peaceful a man as you’re likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice. Though it happened thirty-four years ago, and though I can’t say it’s haunted my mind that many nights lately, I suspect I can draw it out for you now, clear as this noon. I may need to try."
Set in a summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the deceptively tranquil 1950s, The Tongues of Angels is a story of the twenty-one-year-old painting teacher, a superbly gifted boy, and their advance toward a startling fate. As the now-older man looks back at on that summer, he reflects on the meanings he thought he had learned on the threshold of manhood from the perspective of full maturity.
This is a special book, beautifully written and unforgettable. Set in 1954 at a classic American Summer camp in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it is the story of Bridge Boatner, a 21-year-old first-time counsellor and painter, and 14 year-old Rafe, a wise old head of a boy who has been through too much sadness in his young life.
We know at the start of the story that there will be a death, and we know who it will be. But the getting there and the skillful unfolding of the story by this beautiful writer is the bittersweet joy of this little known novel.
Genre: YA coming-of-age
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