Throwing Shadows
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Five young people stand at the edge of self-discovery in Throwing Shadows, E. L. Konigsburg's celebrated collection of five short stories, each narrated by a boy on the verge of a defining moment in his life. From a boy who befriends an elderly man at a library to a young Native American navigating the collision of tradition and modernity, each tale presents a quietly profound encounter that forever alters its protagonist's understanding of identity, dignity, and what it means to cast one's own shadow in the world. Konigsburg, the two-time Newbery Medal-winning author, brings her signature wit, psychological sharpness, and deeply humanistic vision to bear on these interconnected portraits of youth. Her prose is deceptively spare yet richly layered, chronicling the interior lives of children with an empathy and precision rarely matched in middle-grade literature. Readers who believe they know what a short story collection for young readers can achieve will find their assumptions quietly, and memorably, dismantled.
Author: E. L. Konigsburg
Format: Paperback
Genre: Childrens fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Five young people stand at the edge of self-discovery in Throwing Shadows, E. L. Konigsburg's celebrated collection of five short stories, each narrated by a boy on the verge of a defining moment in his life. From a boy who befriends an elderly man at a library to a young Native American navigating the collision of tradition and modernity, each tale presents a quietly profound encounter that forever alters its protagonist's understanding of identity, dignity, and what it means to cast one's own shadow in the world. Konigsburg, the two-time Newbery Medal-winning author, brings her signature wit, psychological sharpness, and deeply humanistic vision to bear on these interconnected portraits of youth. Her prose is deceptively spare yet richly layered, chronicling the interior lives of children with an empathy and precision rarely matched in middle-grade literature. Readers who believe they know what a short story collection for young readers can achieve will find their assumptions quietly, and memorably, dismantled.