false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg 126816 8 There are certain plots that possess inherent drama, and the saving of a lost child is one of them. In <I>The Buffalo Soldier</I>, Chris Bohjalian--who showed such flair for drama in the bestselling Oprah's Book Club® pick <I>Midwives</I>--gives us the story of 10-year-old Alfred, an African American foster child who is taken in by Terry and Laura Sheldon, a white couple whose twin daughters have drowned. Another child is also about to come on the scene: Terry has an affair, and the young woman becomes pregnant. Bohjalian takes his sweet time exploring these relationships, but he also writes scenes with the same tautness that made <I>Midwives</I> a page-turner. The result is a novel that's both readable and exhaustively fleshed out. As Alfred settles into the Sheldons' lives, we actually come to believe in the unlikely little family the three of them forge. Bohjalian narrates his story from the perspective of each of his principal characters, a method that can be tiresome, but here is made fresh by the author's clear vision: these people, you feel, are real to him. <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 2284899 2002 The Buffalo Soldier total:1154|5:205|4:472|3:395|2:74|1:8| 1154 4254 1568 113 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 3 1 false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 09:12:03 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 09:33:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 0 false Sat Mar 28 16:20:23 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 16:32:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 0 false Thu Mar 19 14:10:10 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 14:12:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 2 0 true Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 20:47:43 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 21:17:28 -0700 2009
I only read it ...more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 0 false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 05:34:49 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 05:47:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 5 0 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 13:45:07 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 09:13:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 0 false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 05:06:48 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 09:12:36 -0800 2009
Bohjalian's ...more...]]> 2278787 0609608339 9780609608333 14 4 3.69 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2278787.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 26 11:59:29 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 12:18:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 3 0 false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 22:25:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 22:29:46 -0700 2009
But that's not to say anything particularly negative about this book. Bohjalian is a good storyteller. In this story a c...more...]]> 2278787 0609608339 9780609608333 14 4 3.69 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2278787.The_Buffalo_Soldier 3 0 false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 11:28:36 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 16:47:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 3 0 false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 16:47:08 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 19:29:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 2 0 false Sat Mar 22 09:00:52 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 07 18:49:04 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 09:00:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 5 0 false Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 25 00:21:19 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 31 10:04:53 -0700 2008
When Laura and Terry Sheldon foster Alfred, the whole of the small Vermont town in which they live seens to be disrupted. Two years ago...more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 0 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 14 18:44:32 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 18:58:55 -0700 2007
This book was picked as the book that "If all of Rochester could read one book" this year, so I had high hopes for it.

It t...more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 0 false Fri Aug 07 09:27:43 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 09:28:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 0 0 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 14:43:21 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 14:43:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 3 0 false Tue Apr 07 13:03:01 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 13:05:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 2 0 false Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 22:33:21 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 00:05:48 -0700 2008 I felt there was some suspence in the book and that's what kept me reading it.
I dont want to give the ending of this book away, but even though the book end...more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 3 0 false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Apr 01 12:49:47 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 12:49:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126816 0375725466 9780375725463 1131 107 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171924051m/126816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126816.The_Buffalo_Soldier 4 0 false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 20:18:59 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 20:21:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=126816