![]() ![]() Sedgwick’s admiration for Ransome is clear from the outset and bolstered by appended notes about where the novel dovetails with and diverges from real-life history. The rest of the novel, written in episodic vignettes, is more straightforward in painting a man whose attachment to Russia seemingly stems from the love of the woman who would eventually become his second wife. ![]() It fell like brown snow, but each flake was a person”). Roaring Brook, 17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-62672-549-2 Sedgwick ( Blood Red Snow White) transports readers to the border city of Juarez in this grim study of the. ![]() The first section sets the scene of the social and political landscape leading up to the revolution Sedgwick uses vivid, fairy tale imagery to describe historical events, such as a bear that represents the growing discontent among the Russian populace (“The bear, which by now was as large as the cathedral on Catherine’s canal, rose on its hind legs. These stories, coupled with Ransome’s involvement in the Russian revolution as a journalist, inspired this multifaceted historical novel, written in three parts and originally published in 2007. British children’s book author Arthur Ransome captured Printz-winner Sedgwick’s ( Midwinterblood) imagination with his 1916 book, Old Peter’s Russian Tales. ![]()
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