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Title: The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey ISBN: 0-06-009485-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brutally honest chronicles of a teenage runaway!
Comment: I have read various book of this sort -- a coming-of-age story of a teenager who learns the facts of life the hard way. However, Rebecca Godfrey's The Torn Skirt is written with a fresh approach to brutal honesty. The novel's language is beautiful and sinister at the same time.
After her father abandons her, Sara's journey is one of struggle and heartbreak. Her loss of innocence is gruesome and disturbing -- especially when she encounters various teenage prostitutes...
Few authors have dared to enter this uncharted territory in fiction. However, this book is so beautifully written it is to be savored over time, like an exceptional wine. One must open one's eyes and see that the real world -- especially when seen through the eyes of a child -- isn't sugarcoated. And that is why I love this sort of literature.
Rating: 4
Summary: A gritty coming-of-age tale...
Comment: For those who enjoy books about teenagers and coming-of-age stories, The Torn Skirt is just for you. Rebecca Godfrey's offering, however, is a very dark, edgy tale of drugs, prostitution, crime, and runaways. Very good and very scary.
Sara Shaw is tough. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she lives with her hippie, drug-addict father and plays the role of caretaker and billpayer as best she can. Suddenly, once Sara turns 16, things in her life start changing. A form of rebellion heats up inside of her, made more flammable by her father's abrupt departure from her life and a strange and elusive girl named Justine whom she meets while skipping school. Now Sara is on her own and not sure where to go from there. However, the girl Justine has piqued her interest and Sara sets out to find her again. This journey will lead Sara into a world of all sorts of illegal, terrifying things -- a journey that ultimately comes to a horrible conclusion.
I enjoyed this book, but I believe it isn't for everybody. The writing style is a bit poetic, which at times can be sort of weird (and annoying) to read through. Rebecca Godrey is quite talented, though, and the foreshadowing of the ending was enough to keep me turning the pages to find out what happens. The Torn Skirt does open readers' eyes to a new world of teenage rebellion and all the scary things that hide around each corner. The character of Sara Shaw is both innocent and experienced, and I felt motherly and protective toward this girl while reading her story. The mark of a good book: one where the author has managed to make me truly care about a character. Sara Shaw, The Torn Skirt, and Rebecca Godfrey will remain in my mind for quite some time.
Rating: 1
Summary: Fresh? Brutally Honest? No.
Comment: The writing is incredibly unsophisticated, which indicates one of two things: the writer is simply an unsophisticated writer or the writer was shooting for the "voice" of a teen, in which case she failed because no teen talks with that mixture of bad poetry and dimwittedness the writer attempts in this book. The fragments really put me off: lots of empty words, no substance. The whole opening fragment, for example, should have been cut from day one. Sex and drugs and masturbation are issues not often covered in a "fresh" or "brutally honest" way. This author is neither fresh, nor brutally honest. She's self-absorbed and artless. So is her character. This is one of those books that everyone would freak out over if a sixteen year-old had written it one crazy summer between sophomore and junior year. This proud holder of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence would do better as a staff reporter for the National Inquirer.
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Title: Innocents by Cathy Coote ISBN: 0802139272 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke ISBN: 0802136648 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Have You Seen Me? by Laura Denham ISBN: 0786710624 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Swimming Sweet Arrow : A Novel by Maureen Gibbon ISBN: 0316355569 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 08 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Layover by Lisa Zeidner, Random House Inc. ISBN: 0060956496 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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