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The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidde ...more
So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long life, from first love to second chances. Soon she's confessing secrets she has kept hidde ...more
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Commovente... anche se continuo a chiedermi come si chiamava il ragazzino... Ma i record di Ona Vitkus, la scena finale, con il ragazzino e il canto di centinaia di uccelli, che potrebbe essere anche la scena iniziale; e soprattutto il percorso di Quinn, il suo amore inconsapevole per il figlio, che sentiva così diverso da sé eppure era così simile a lui, il bambino che nei suoi ultimi istanti di vita pensa al padre e alla musica e al canto degli uccelli...
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| Play Book Tag: The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood 3 stars | 1 | 16 | Sep 29, 2019 10:52AM | |
| Play Book Tag: The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood - 4 stars | 4 | 20 | Nov 04, 2018 09:18AM | |
| Ladies & Literature: Official March 2018 Book Discussion: The One-in-a-Million Boy | 19 | 36 | Apr 30, 2018 07:26PM | |
| Temecula Valley B...: Guinness Attempt | 7 | 12 | Apr 03, 2018 08:48PM | |
| Brantford Public ...: Final Thoughts | 3 | 43 | Jul 03, 2017 06:13PM |
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Monica Wood is the author of four works of fiction, most recently The One-in-a-Million-Boy, which won a 2017 Nautilus Award (Gold) and the 2017 fiction prize from the New England Society in the City of New York. She also is the author of Any Bitter Thing which spent 21 weeks on the American Booksellers Association extended bestseller list and was named a Book Sense Top Ten pick. Her other fictio
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“You know, one meets so many people, the years pass and pass, but there are certain times, certain people— . . . They take up room. So much room. I was married to Howard for twenty-eight years and yet he made only a piddling dent in my memory. A little nick. But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan. . . .”
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