Orla's Canvas
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1942756208 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Like the South in which she lives, she suffers the turbulence of changing times. Narrated by eleven-year-old Orla Gwen Gleason, Orla's Canvas opens on Easter Sunday, in St. Suplice's vulnerable stability. The novel is both a gripping look into a historic moment in American culture and a poignant coming-of-age story readers won't forget." - Chantel Acevedo, author of The Distant Marvels. Smart, resilient, and fiercely determined to make sense of her pain, Orla paints chaos into beauty, documenting both horror and grace, discovering herself at last through her art. The death of St. "Taking as her canvas the Civil Rights era in Louisiana, Mary Donnarumma Sharnick tells the affecting story of Orla, a remarkable young heroine with the soul of an artist. Castleberry's collaboration with the local Negro minister and Archbishop Rummel to integrate the parochial school, violence fractures St. Suplice, Louisiana, a "misspelled town" north of New Orleans, and traces Orla's dawning realization that all is not as it seems in her personal life or in the life of her community. When the Klan learns of Mrs. The brutality Orla witnesses at summer's end awakens her to life's tenuous fragility. Suplice's doyenne, Mrs. Bellefleur Dubois Castleberry, for whom Orla's mother keeps house, reveals Orla's true pater
For good reason; Orla's Canvas is an American classic for our times." James R. Orla's art is her window on the world, a world she valiantly struggles to make sense of. Mary Donnarumma Sharnick has given us a stylish and affecting portrait of a young artist--and a still-young country--coming of age together." Louis Bayard, author of Roosevelt's Beast . -- Emma Paine, MLIS Upper School Librarian and Archivist Chase Collegiate School"Fiction doesn't get much more sensual than this. Benn, author of the acclaimed Billy Boyle Series Refusing her characters, and her readers, the option of keeping the past locked in the past, Sharnick instead suggests that yesterday's story bleeds into and informs today's, and her novel
Marina J. Neary said A "A 20th century female Huck Finn!" according to Marina J. Neary. Imagine elements of Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor distilled and harmoniously concocted in a highly literary and authentic modern masterpiece. Orla's Canvas is a novel that looks like a painting and tastes like a Southern feast with Irish, French and African flavors mixing together. The protagonist Orla Gleason is a painstakingly observant yet refreshingly non-judgmental prepubescent Southern girl of Irish extraction who is trying to find her voice in the volatile political climate. Nothing escapes her senses, no smell, sight or sound. She's almost . 0th century female Huck Finn!. Imagine elements of Mark Twain, William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor distilled and harmoniously concocted in a highly literary and authentic modern masterpiece. Orla's Canvas is a novel that looks like a painting and tastes like a Southern feast with Irish, French and African flavors mixing together. The protagonist Orla Gleason is a painstakingly observant yet refreshingly non-judgmental prepubescent Southern girl of Irish extraction who is trying to find her voice in the volatile political climate. Nothing escapes her senses, no smell, sight or sound. She's almost . I loved this story Barbara I loved this story. Sharnick's words draw us into the canvas that is her novel. She creates truly memorable lines and images as the story of this remarkable young girl reveals itself. I could not put it down.. A Must Read! Orla's Canvas, written by Mary Donnarumma Sharnick, had me gripped from the start. The story of a young girl coming of age in a small Louisiana town divided by class and race during the Civil Rights Era, Mary paints with her words, as Orla does with her brush, a brilliant and compelling picture of love, hate, and the blurred line that exists somewhere in between. Orla's Canvas is a journey of self-discovery in which, as Mary writes, "Nothing 'cept everything had changed." A poignant story of color, of stature, and of so much more, Orla paints a piece of our nation's hi