Newbery Medal (John Newbery Medal)
Up a Road Slowly
A coming-of-age novel about a girl growing up under the care of her grandmother after an early loss.
Work Information
A coming-of-age novel about a girl growing up under the care of her grandmother after an early loss.
A coming-of-age novel about a girl growing up under the care of her grandmother after an early loss.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Berkley Pub Group
- Published
- 1990-08-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 10.8 x 1.91 x 17.15 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780425100035
- ISBN-10
- 0425100030
- Price
- 1899 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Teen & Young Adult
After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster shoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
Reviews
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This book can be read on more than one level. On the one hand it is a seventeen year old looking back on the last ten years of her life, but parallel to this is her fifty plus year old aunt who also remembers herself at that age. "You are just young", aunt Cordellia tells her neice Julie, but the writer adds, "and it was as if she was talking to herself".
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A wonderful book from my childhood that I was pleased to return to when I reread it recently.
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The best of Irene Hunt's books right here. I'm a big Irene Hunt fan, and this is her crowning achievement: the coming-of-age tale of Julie, a girl who is sometimes scared, sometimes feels unloved, battles selfishness and is crossed in love, but ultimately learns how to put others first and view the world through wiser eyes. I related closely to Julie, who is a diligent student and often seeks to please but sometimes just can't stand to do what is required of her. It's good to have a flawed heroine who learns to overcome.
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This novel was a favorite of my girlish years back in the 1970s. I have no idea how a girl of this century will respond to this book. There is one unfortunate dated and now offensive characterization of a young girl with intellectual disabilities. However, the underlying interactions and lesson taught by that episode rings true for the times. This book pairs with Cress Delahanty by Jessamyn West, as the two best coming of age novels about sensitive, intelligent literary girls in the last half of the 1900s. As an awkward, unlovely high schooler in 1970 to 74, I longed to have friends like Julie and Cress and a life that was so rich with emotional growth. I think a few girls today might feel the same way and take comfort and hope from these books.
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I read this book many years ago, and again just recently. I recall a classmate of the main character being sent away to live with distant relatives because she got pregnant. It never mentions that in the Kindle version. In fact, I had to spend some time searching a number of web pages before finding one that even brings up that scene. I don't know if anything else is missing, but if they cut that out, they may have removed other parts. I suggest finding an old copy of the book and reading that, because it is a good book.