Christine Bongers's Reviews > The Dead I Know
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The Dead I Know
by Scot Gardner
by Scot Gardner
Christine Bongers's review
bookshelves:
aussie-ya
Nov 27, 11
Recommended for:
mid-to-uppper secondary
Read from November 10 to 27, 2011
This gritty yet sensitive tale of a troubled boy apprenticed to a kindly undertaker reminded me of words attributed to Virginia Woolf: 'Someone must die so that others may appreciate life more fully'. The confronting aspects of death and flashes of gallows humour are leavened with respect and an innate decency that make 'The Dead I know' a celebration of life in the face of death. Four-and-a-half stars for readers 15+.
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