Jack Gantos - Love Curse Of The Rumbaughs (2011) - Used - Trade Cloth (Hard

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Very Good
A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“In very good condition.”
Country of Origin
United States
ISBN
9780374336905
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374336903
ISBN-13
9780374336905
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46595111

Product Key Features

Book Title
Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Family / Parents, Horror, General, Family / Siblings
Genre
Juvenile Fiction
Author
Jack Gantos
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
LCCN
2005-040124
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed, Booklist   "A totally engaging, intelligently written work guaranteed to either entrance or repel readers.  This one will linger in one's darkest corners."  --Starred, Kirkus Reviews   "An eerie, nearly perverse gothic tale of love and devotion gone completely and frighteningly haywire. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers."  --School Library Journal    , "A totally engaging, intelligently written work . . . this one will linger in one's darkest corners." --Starred, Kirkus Reviews "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed, Booklist "Eerie. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers." -- School Library Journal "This offbeat novel, reflecting elements of Psycho and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed." -- Publishers Weekly "Few other books offer such a combination of stylization verging on the comic and a true fascination with the Gothic's exploration of human minds." -- Chicago Tribune "The wonderful and compelling strangeness will . . . draw many readers, especially fans of silver-screen or classic literary Gothic." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Compelling." -- The Horn Book, "A totally engaging, intelligently written work guaranteed to either entrance or repel readers.  This one will linger in one's darkest corners."  --Starred, Kirkus Reviews   "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed, Booklist   "An eerie, nearly perverse gothic tale of love and devotion gone completely and frighteningly haywire. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers."  --School Library Journal   "This offbeat novel . . . draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed."  --Publishers Weekly  , "A totally engaging, intelligently written work guaranteed to either entrance or repel readers. This one will linger in one's darkest corners." --Starred, "Kirkus Reviews""" "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed," Booklist""" "An eerie, nearly perverse gothic tale of love and devotion gone completely and frighteningly haywire. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers." --"School Library Journal""" "This offbeat novel . . . draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed." --"Publishers Weekly", "A totally engaging, intelligently written work . . . this one will linger in one's darkest corners."  --Starred, Kirkus Reviews   "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed, Booklist   "An eerie, nearly perverse gothic tale of love and devotion gone completely and frighteningly haywire. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers."  --School Library Journal   "This offbeat novel, reflecting elements of Psycho and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed."  --Publishers Weekly   "Few other books offer such a combination of stylization verging on the comic and a true fascination with the Gothic's exploration of human minds."  --Chicago Tribune   "The wonderful and compelling strangeness will . . . draw many readers, especially fans of silver-screen or classic literary Gothic."  --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, "A totally engaging, intelligently written work . . . this one will linger in one's darkest corners."  --Starred, "Kirkus Reviews"""  "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed," Booklist"""  "Eerie. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers."  --"School Library Journal"""  "This offbeat novel, reflecting elements of "Psycho"  and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed."  --"Publishers Weekly"""  "Few other books offer such a combination of stylization verging on the comic and a true fascination with the Gothic's exploration of human minds."  --"Chicago Tribune"  "The wonderful and compelling strangeness will . . . draw many readers, especially fans of silver-screen or classic literary Gothic."  --"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"""  "Compelling."  --"The Horn Book", "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed, "Booklist" "A totally engaging, intelligently written work guaranteed to either entrance or repel readers. This one will linger in one's darkest corners." --Starred, "Kirkus Reviews""" "An eerie, nearly perverse gothic tale of love and devotion gone completely and frighteningly haywire. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers." --"School Library Journal""", "A totally engaging, intelligently written work . . . this one will linger in one's darkest corners."  --Starred, Kirkus Reviews   "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed, Booklist   "Eerie. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers."  -- School Library Journal   "This offbeat novel, reflecting elements of Psycho  and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed."  -- Publishers Weekly   "Few other books offer such a combination of stylization verging on the comic and a true fascination with the Gothic's exploration of human minds."  -- Chicago Tribune   "The wonderful and compelling strangeness will . . . draw many readers, especially fans of silver-screen or classic literary Gothic."  -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books   "Compelling."  -- The Horn Book, "A totally engaging, intelligently written work . . . this one will linger in one's darkest corners."  --Starred,Kirkus Reviews   "A shocking, darkly comic tale."--Boxed,Booklist   "Eerie. This thought-provoking story about free will and the arguments of nature and nurture will definitely stick with readers."  --School Library Journal   "This offbeat novel, reflecting elements ofPsycho and Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed."  --Publishers Weekly   "Few other books offer such a combination of stylization verging on the comic and a true fascination with the Gothic's exploration of human minds."  --Chicago Tribune   "The wonderful and compelling strangeness will . . . draw many readers, especially fans of silver-screen or classic literary Gothic."  --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books   "Compelling."  --The Horn Book
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Grade From
Ninth Grade
Dewey Decimal
[Fic]
Grade To
Twelfth Grade
Synopsis
In his third book for young adults, Gantos scripts a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion . . . and a passion for taxidermy., On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the eccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh, known throughout their small western Pennsylvania town simply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and Dolph have been compelled by a powerful mutual love for their deceased mother to do something extraordinary, something that in its own twisted way bridges the gap between the living and the dead. Immediately, Ivy' s discovery provokes the revelation of a Rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as Ivy will learn over the coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own mother. In his third book for young adults, Jack Gantos has scripted a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion . . . and a passion for taxidermy., "I expect you might think the story I am about to tell you is untrue or perversely gothic in some unhealthy way. You might even think I've exaggerated the facts in order to twist this book into a modern-day metaphor on the exploitation of human creation, as did Mary Shelley with "Frankenstein," Maybe you'll think I'm trying to spook you with a psychological tale of a murderous double as Edgar Allan Poe wrote in "William Wilson," or to stir up family shame as Hawthorne did in "The House of the Seven Gables," But my story is entirely different."So begins Jack Gantos' unnerving drama about three generations of family and friends in a small western Pennsylvania town, held together by the secrets of obsessional mother love-a love so blood-bound that, once revealed, it has no choice but to turn against its keepers., On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the eccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh, known throughout their small western Pennsylvania town simply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and Dolph have been compelled by a powerful mutual love for their deceased mother to do something extraordinary, something that in its own twisted way bridges the gap between the living and the dead. Immediately, Ivy's discovery provokes the revelation of a Rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as Ivy will learn over the coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own mother. In his third book for young adults, Jack Gantos has scripted a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion . . . and a passion for taxidermy.
LC Classification Number
PZ7.G15334Lov 2006

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