Revolver
A LOADED GUN. STOLEN GOLD. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush.In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then comes a stranger...
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A LOADED GUN. STOLEN GOLD. And a menacing stranger. A taut frontier survivor story, set at the time of the Alaska gold rush.In an isolated cabin, fourteen-year-old Sig is alone with a corpse: his father, who has fallen through the ice and frozen to death only hours earlier. Then comes a stranger claiming that Sig’s father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold. Sig’s only protection is a loaded Colt revolver hidden in the cabin’s storeroom. The question is, will Sig use the gun, and why? Revolver is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781596435926 (1596435925)
Publish date: April 13th 2010
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
Not since Jack London's To Build a Fire has a story made me feel physically cold. Fast read , I loved it.
This is a short, simple and powerful story that I sat down to sample and ended up finishing in no time at all. Revolver is the second book I've read by Marcus Sedgwick - the other being Midwinterblood - and I have to say that both his novels have managed to impress and surprise me.If I'm being hones...
in a sentence or so: Sig is alone in his cabin. he's been left to deal with his dead father on the kitchen table, his missing sister and step-mother, and the big and brutish man who's come demanding something Sig can't deliver.when Sig's dad didn't come home, they knew something was wrong. one glanc...
Given Sedgwick's skill with atmosphere in fiction, coming across a book by him that centres on a revolver and an isolated homestead in the Arctic circle was a moment of joy.Unfortunately, this book is something of a failure; it should really be tense and atmospheric; pregnant with potential violence...
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