My Father's Arms Are A Boat

My Father's Arms Are A Boat
Stein Erik Lunde (Author), Oyvind Torseter (Illustrator), Kari Dickson (Translator)

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Death & Dying

It's quieter than it's ever been. Unable to sleep, a young boy climbs into his father's arms. Feeling the warmth and closeness of his father, he begins to ask questions about the birds, the foxes, and whether his mom will ever wake up. They go outside under the starry sky. Loss and love are as present as the white spruces, while the father's clear answers and assurances calm his worried son. Here we feel the cycles of life and life's continuity, even in the face of absence and loss, so strongly and clearly that we know at the end that everything will, somehow, be all right.

Born in 1953, Stein Erik Lunde has written sixteen books, mostly for children and young adults. His books have been published in many countries. This is his first book to be published in the United States. He also writes lyrics and has translated Bob Dylan into Norwegian. In 2009 My Father's Arms Are A Boat was awarded the Norwegian Ministry's Culture Prize for the Best Book for Children and Youth. The book was also nominated for the 2011 German Children's Literature Award.

Born in 1972, Øyvind Torseter is an artist and one of Norway's most acclaimed illustrators. He employs both traditional and digital picture techniques. Torseter has received numerous prizes for many of his books. In 2011 he received the Norwegian Book Art Prize. For 2012 he has been nominated for the ALMA Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

• Rank: #251858 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 7.90" w x 9.60" l, .80 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

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Contributors: Stein Erik Lunde - Author. Format: Hardcover

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Westminster Maryland USA: Bantam Books 1991. Mass Market Paperback. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. Synopsis: Tom Wingo a middle-aged high school football coach and English teacher is summoned from his home in Charleston South Carolina to New York City to attend to his twin sister Savannah who has remained comatose since attempting suicide. Savannah's psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein wants Tom to fill in many of the details in Savannah's upbringing. As Tom tells the Wingo story to Susan he begins to uncover long-repressed memories revealing some terrible family secrets. Gradually the reasons why Savannah has tried to kill herself become evident. PROLOGUE My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage my Port of call. I grew up slowly beside the tides and marshes of Colleton; my arms were tawny and strong from working long days on the shrimp boat in the blazing South Carolina heat. Because I was a Wingo I worked as soon as I could walk; I could pick a blue crab clean when I was five. I had killed my first deer by the age of seven and at nine was regularly putting meat on my family's table. I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country inked in dark gold on my back and shoulders. As a boy I was happy above the channels navigating a small boat between the sandbars with their quiet nation of oysters exposed on the brown flats at the low watermark. I knew every shrimper by name and they knew me and sounded their horns when they passed me fishing in the river. When I was ten I killed a bald eagle for pleasure for the singularity of the act despite the divine exhilarating beauty of its solitary flight over schools of whiting. It was the only thing I had ever killed that I had never seen before. After my father beat me for breaking the law and for killing the last eagle in Colleton County he made me build a fire dress the bird and eat its flesh as tears rolled down my face. Then he turned me in to Sheriff Benson who locked me in a cell for over an hour. My father took the feathers and made a crude Indian headdress for me to wear to school. He believed in the expiation of sin. I wore the headdress for weeks until it began to disintegrate feather by feather. ISBN 0-553-26888-0 12mo - over 6{3/4}" - 7{3/4}" tall.