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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 5/10, it was ok. ( ) In a small 1950s town, a young girl stricken with polio finds a mysterious object that allows her to do amazing and magical feats. But the object is being pursued by a mystery man and by government agents who are leaning into the fear of communism to bully their hunt along. With tinges of "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," the paranoid classic episode of The Twilight Zone, and art that pays homage to Hergé's Tintin, Liam Francis Walsh spins an exciting little tale about a dark time in American history. (Another project! I'm trying to read all the picture books and graphic novels on the kids section of NPR's Books We Love 2022.) It’s 1953. Even in Peggy’s hometown the cops and the Feds are in hot pursuit of someone dressed in trench coat carrying a briefcase labeled PROPERTY US GOV! Just before they nab the suspected commie spy, he leaps out of a second story window and completely disappears! Meanwhile Peggy and her brother Skip are struggling to survive the agony of middle school. The teacher hassles them, the other kids hassle them. They are not part of the cool crowd. Peggy who has survived polio walks with crutches, her dad struggles with the psychological trauma and physical disabilities that he received as a veteran of the Korean War. Her mother has to work to support the family. Peggy feels friendless until she meets a new girl in town. But she’s also encountered a wounded man dressed in a trench coat with a briefcase labeled PROPERTY US GOV, and she discovers something amazing in that briefcase: something that can make her fly. Walsh’s exciting story and the Hergé lines in the illustrations make Red Scare the equal to the best Tintin adventure. And for us chronologically gifted enough to have grown up in the nineteen fifties in the U.S. it’s a potent reminder of UFOs, McCarthyism, and life before the Salk vaccine, a time of iron lungs, duck and cover drills, and flying saucers. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to overturn the tense political stalemate, and Peggy finds herself smack in the middle of the Cold War arms race."--Provided by publisher. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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