Sonny Brewer
Autor von The Poet of Tolstoy Park
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Sonny Brewer is the founder of Over the Transom Bookshop in Fairhope, Alabama, and is board chairman of the nonprofit Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts.
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Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit (2010) — Herausgeber — 41 Exemplare
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Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing. No. 57 (2007): Best of the South (2007) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Brewer, Sonny E.
- Geburtstag
- 1949
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- Fairhope, Alabama, USA
- Berufe
- editor
- Organisationen
- Over the Transom Bookshop (owner)
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- Werke
- 13
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- Beliebtheit
- #44,051
- Bewertung
- 3.8
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- 13
- ISBNs
- 55
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So this is my tale. The imperfect recollections of Rover MacNee--scenes from that winter when I was a boy just turned sixteen. I’ll help Rove to see with the eyes I’ve got now, but I can tell you this: growing older only put colors inside the lines I drew way back then. And old men have permission to color outside the lines.
Which is the premise of this novel...the recollection of an old man about a season in his life that changed it forever. Brewer is a strongly visual writer, and I enjoyed the details about life in a waterman’s town and the art of sailing. The story was well-written, but I never truly connected to a single character. It seemed more a story told from the outside looking in, than from the inside projecting out. Perhaps that is intentional, since there is an old man at the beginning of this novel telling us it is just his memory of what happened, but once the boy, Rove, took over, I would have liked to feel more connected to him.
Writers generally progress as they write, but I did not feel this book was nearly as good as The Poet of Tolstoy Park. Therein lies my disappointment, I think. It never pays to go into a book with too much expectation, and I have fallen prey to that once more. I’m betting if I had read this one first it would have gotten at least another half a star.… (mehr)