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The Toll Bridge (The Dance Sequence)
To escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Piers takes a job as a keeper of a toll bridge and its cottage. There he befriends Adam, a charismatic wayfarer who shows up one day and refuses to leave. He also befriends a girl named Tess, and soon he and Tess find themselves strangely attracted to Adam and falling under his s
...moreHardcover, 268 pages
Published
June 1st 1995
by Laura Geringer Book
(first published October 27th 1992)
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This is the third book I've read in the so-called Dance Sequence (which is not really a series, or I would never be reading them out of order): first I read the final and superlative This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, and the circled back to the second and sequence-naming Dance on My Grave, and those two books are not hugely similar to each other.
A third data-point is useful for triangulating some reoccurring themes. An obvious one is each book is narrated primarily through the writi...more
A third data-point is useful for triangulating some reoccurring themes. An obvious one is each book is narrated primarily through the writi...more
3.5 stars. What is with all of the reviews emphasizing the sex in this book? There is one scene, and it doesn't even involve the main character! Two reviews made it sound too racy for our YA collection, but it's not. Annoying. Anyway, it was a good book... The setting is unique and compelling, and you care about the characters. It makes you think and nicely ties in some literary references. I would have liked a little more at the end. We find out what Adam's deal is, but not really how it pertai...more
I was a 13-year-old girl thumbing through the second hand selves at a local bookstore when I came across a well-read book. I picked it up and noticed the cracked spine and the folded pages. When most people see a boring book with a double-headed piece of pottery on the cover, I see an interesting story. And it was... I have never heard of Aidan Chambers or half the things in the book. Thanks to the Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High, I did not know what real writing was. "Toll Bridge" is wha...more
Apr 29, 2011
Cookie Lopez
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Ahhh...I don't know what I thought about this book. Three stars? Two stars? Reading this book was a roller coaster for me. I liked it...I didn't like it. I was intrigued...I was bored. Usually a book draws me in and I become so entranced, I read it immediately. Not this one - FIVE days; five days when I could have (and should have) been reading something else.
But, then again, I DO want to read the other books in the series. What can I say? I'm a sucker for anything English! LoVe the UK!
But, then again, I DO want to read the other books in the series. What can I say? I'm a sucker for anything English! LoVe the UK!
If you are interested in psychology and types of amnesia, this is a pretty interesting read. I enjoyed the play between Tess and Jan when they wrote together...the playful banter. And there are a lot of literary references, which makes it a fun game to see how many I recognize and know where they came from. And it's a very interesting story once it really gets going, though it is kind of slow to start. It's a pretty easy read, probably for YA, but then I enjoy YA novels and I know a lot of my fr...more
Nowhere near as compelling as Postcards from No-Man's Land, so I was a tad disappointed. But nevertheless Chambers's characters drew me in, and the vague sense of foreboding throughout made me eager to see where to story was going. If I was going to recommend this author, I wouldn't start with this book - but it was good for someone who already enjoys his style.
Feb 01, 2010
Jane
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I had started and rejected about 10 books before I read this gem. His writing is beautiful, the characters made me remember the intensity of feelings and judgments of my late teen years. Finding out who they are, what matters to them, I went into the library on my day off to get another of his books.
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Absolutely one of my favorite books. I read it a few years ago, and it helped a lot when it came to opening my eyes to the normalcy of sex within life and daily conversation. . . . although it's not so normal in this book.
I didn't love this as much as I had expected, but then I should have expected Chambers to deliver his usual punch, which he did. Well written as usual, and painful as usual!
By far my favourite Chambers.
Although socio-realism is not my favourite genre this book enthralled me. I found myself at times captivated by the intriguing development of the story and the main characters. The ending was very different to what i expected, but the last paragraph was brilliant.
The beginning and the ending were excellent, but it fell short a bit in the middle. Review to come.
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Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine. After two years in the Royal Navy as part of his National Service, Chambers trained as a teacher and taught for three years at Westcliff High School in Southend on Sea before joining an Anglican monastery in...more
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