Título: Hopscotch Summer
Autor: Annie Murray
Sinopse: Domestic fiction. Emma Brown is a happy go lucky child, content to work hard at school, and to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her house in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham. As long as everything is alright at home with her Ma and Pa, her little sister Joyce and brother Sid, then life is good. But after Em's mother Cynthia has her baby she just doesn't seem to be able to cope. Her life-long friend and neighbour Dot helps as much as she can, but she has children of her own, and no man to hand; Cynthia's husband Bob, too, does his best, but begins to feel that he's losing the wife he has loved so much; and little Em just can't find enough hours in the day to do all the washing and cleaning. Soon, it seems, the only thing is for Cynthia to go and stay across the city with her tyrannical older sister. With Cynthia away, life only gets harder for Em. Her best friend Kate ostracises her, leaving only poor, stinky Molly Fox at her side, and when the Board Man comes to call, wanting to know why she's not at school, things are really bad. When Bob stays out later and later in the evenings, always the worse for wear, and spending too much time with a local very merry widow, Em decides to travel across Birmingham to fetch her mother home, but the mother she discovers is a far cry from the proud, upright and loving figure she has known so well.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Hopscotch Summer”, de Annie Murray, publicado pela editora Pan Macmillan, em 2009 e com 416 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Pan Macmillan
Páginas: 416
Ano: 2009
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780330458191
ISBN13: 9780330458191
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora PAN MACMILLAN apresentam uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o suspense psicológico, thrillers investigativos e dramas humanos densos, com um tom que varia do tenso ao reflexivo. O catálogo sugere um equilíbrio entre histórias mais narrativas, como dramas familiares e romances contemporâneos, e obras mais informativas ou de não ficção, que abordam temas como jardinagem sustentável e relatos de memórias impactantes. O ritmo das obras pode ser tanto acelerado e cheio de reviravoltas quanto pausado e introspectivo, com personagens complexos e conflitos morais que envolvem desde investigações criminais até dilemas pessoais e históricos.
