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| Original Title: | Cracks |
| ISBN: | 1590512057 (ISBN13: 9781590512050) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Sheila Kohler
Paperback | Pages: 176 pages Rating: 3.42 | 787 Users | 100 Reviews
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| Title | : | Cracks |
| Author | : | Sheila Kohler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | June 17th 2006 by Other Press (first published September 1st 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. Mystery. Young Adult. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Now a major motion picture starring Eva Green and directed by Jordan ScottA beautiful schoolgirl mysteriously disappears into the South African veld. Forty years later, thirteen members of the missing girl's swimming team gather at their old boarding school for a reunion, and look back to the long, dry weeks leading to Fiamma's disappearance. As teenage memories and emotions resurface, the women relive the horror of a long-buried secret. A stunning and singular tale of the passion and tribalism of adolescence, Cracks lays bare the violence that lurks in the heart of even the most innocent.
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Ratings: 3.42 From 787 Users | 100 ReviewsJudgment Regarding Books Cracks
1.5 stars.Cracks is one of those dream-like books that makes the reader walk around in a daze. If crafted correctly, such books can be amazing reading experiences, but unfortunately Cracks fell short. The writing with all the repeated phrases was hazy (though this perhaps enhanced the mood of the story). The way in which the book was framed as a memory being shared by the characters many years later didn't add to the story. I did enjoy the setting and the evocative descriptions. However, IWhen I viewed the 2009 film Cracks, I did not realize that it had been adapted from a novel. Honestly, that fact was only exhumed accidentally while perusing an online library catalog that thematically linked the novel with Picnic at Hanging Rock. I watched Cracks during a period of time when I was interested in the sublimated homoerotic undertones of adolescent friendships that border on obsession in repressive environments, like same-sex segregated schools. After reading the chilling Moth
I didn't mind this book, but I found it a bit disappointing. I was shocked towards the end and so I hoped that something worse would happen at the very end.
creepy and super dark, but oddly beautiful. i'm all about quasihomicidal schoolgirls
I'd never heard of the author or the book, but I saw a reference to it in a comment on Dare Me and discovered the library at the U. had a copy so took a few hours off from Jojo Moyes to read it. As my rating indicates, I thought it a pretty good but not great school story. Exept for Miss G., the swim coach, the characters were not clearly drawn, and there were too many to follow in such a short book. The victim, Fiamma, never became real enough to care about what happened to her. Miss G. seemed
I watched the movie before reading the book. They are quite different, but not in a bad way.First of all the setting is different: The movie takes place in GB (filming took place in Ireland) and the book is set in South Africa.Some characters have different names (Rosie, Poppy, etc. in the movie), but it doesn't change the actual story.I found the movie scene in which Fiamma (a Spanish student in the movie, Italian in the book) gets killed quite disturbing already, but in the book she gets raped
well this was absolutely horrifying. definitely a big cw for rape/molestation. beautiful writing but i just wasn't expecting that
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