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SOLVED. Literature - someone (child) bitten by a stoat? [s]
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Jan 19, 2017 09:17AM
Trying to identify a book I read within the last couple years where someone, I believe a child, was bitten by a stoat. I didn't know what a stoat was at the time so I had to look it up. The bite got infected but I think was not fatal? Is likely something written before 1950, possibly 19th century. Tried searching project gutenberg (AU, US), wikisource, as well as numerous queries on google, but turned up nothing. This is driving me crazy, any help would be appreciated!
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definitely not anything here, this was a minor plot point, not a central theme. and its totally catalogued on my read shelf here, i just can't place it. i've gone over this list and the books IRL like five times, but still can't place it. argh!!
Was this a children or YA book?
no - would be literature of some kind, almost certainly written before 1950, possibly 19th century
Nate, I hope someone here will be able to help you find your book; good luck.
Is it Awful End by Philip Ardagh? Looked it up on google. It's a children's book from 2000.
nope, like i said, not a childrens book, definitely literature, possibly 19th century
Do you remember what country was the setting for this book?England? America?
Anything else you might remember about this book would be helpful.
i dont think its american (most of the US stuff i've read recently is faulkner and stoats dont live in mississippi, doesn't appear to be cather from quick google searches who would be my other guess), could be UK or continental europe. its somewhere on my "read" shelf
It's not Silver on the Tree, from what you've said, but that's what originally made ME look up stoats:"Their voices were above Will's head; he was lying on his back in cool grass. It was a moment before he could recollect himself, and stop shaking. He heaved himself up on to his elbows, and saw Stephen and James standing a few paces away, their hands full of rods and fish and bait pails. They were staring at something in a kind-of wary fascination. Will craned his head round to the hot humming meadow, to see what held them. And he gasped, as his mind was half torn apart by a great wave of that same blind terror that had swamped him a moment before, a world and ten centuries and yet no more than a breath away.
Ten yards off in the grass, a small black animal was standing motionless, facing him: a lithe, lean animal perhaps a foot and a half long with a long tail and sinuous, curving back. It was like a stoat or a weasel and yet it was neither. Its sleek fur was pitch black from nose to tail; its unwinking black eyes were fixed unmistakably on Will. And from it he felt a pulsing ferocity of viciousness and evil so strong that his mind rebelled against believing it could exist."
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i never found it and stopped looking for it, but if you have any suggestions (on my read shelf) i'd appreciate it!
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https://books.google.com/books?id=1qg...
