Bless The Beasts & Children: A Novel (1970)

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Author

Glendon Swarthout

Genre

Middle Grade & Children's

Rating

3.47 of 5 Votes: 3

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ISBN

1476766797 (ISBN13: 9781476766799)

Language

English

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

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About book Bless The Beasts & Children: A Novel (1970)

This was a wonderful novel and one of the best coming-of-age stories I've read. It captivated me from the first page and held me to the end as I read it in one sitting. Full of symbolism and imagery, it chronicles the children maturing and assuming their role as outcasts and rebels to the system, an idea very familiar to the year the novel was penned, 1970. It ends in perhaps the most unexpected of ways, but it left me speechless. All in all, a well-written work. One of my mother's childhood favorites and recommended to me by her. this book is a very nice book the part most important to me was "For a moment, or moments, beasts and children were friends, there in the sweetness and silence of the night, there in the calm and lovely fields of the Lord." I love this part most of all because of all the things we dont get along for but what we pass by us and dont realize is that we are all alike and god made us we have the same body parts so why act like we are seperated.