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Title: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris, Barbara Rosenblat ISBN: 1-883332-96-6 Publisher: Audio Bookshelf Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 12 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (113 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Required Reading in High School
Comment: Michael Dorris weaves a tale of how three women have chosen their paths which affects their present and future going back into the past lives of Christina and Ida. The two women have secrets of their own that have affected each of them and how they treat their offspring.
I read this book in my senior year of high school thinking that it would be another boring read. Instead, I found myself immersed into the book wondering how each female has led her own life. Rayona doesn't know why she is going back home and Christina doesn't know what she has done to make her mother Ida feel inferior to her. We don't know why Ida dotes on her late son Lee. The reader has to be fully absorbed into the book to understand each woman's story.
We can't undue what has happened in our past but we can learn from it to make it a better future.
Rating: 5
Summary: A seminal work.
Comment: "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" is one story, a single epoch, but told three times, each telling by one of the three women who shared it: the grandmother, Ida, the mother, Christine, and the daughter, Rayona. But, this book is not just about a single story seen through three different pairs of eyes.
It's really a story of the forces that compel each of us to do the things we do, frequently against our own intuition or better judgement ---- and, all of them ring true. Dorris, the author, had incredible insight into human behavior when he wrote this book. Tragically, I understand that he ended his own life by suicide.
Although this is fiction, it's a poignant revelation into the consequences of embracing cultural belief systems that have little basis in reality. Ruined or miserable lives are often the result. The daughter, Rayona, like many teenagers, trashes the moors of her elders and shows promise of breaking out of the cruel cycle that held her mother and grandmother captive to an miserable life.
This book is a plea: it asks how we know for sure, what we think we know for sure. Granted, that's a bit heavy, but certainly worthwhile for anyone who wonders where happiness lies.
Rating: 1
Summary: uggggg
Comment: hello peoples. this book sux. i h8ed it soooooooooooooooooooo much. i like had to reed it 4 school and it rilly rilly sucked alot. i coudnt even unnerstan what the hall it was even about cuz the guy that write it just kep talkin about stuff i couldnt even unnerstan. so if U dont wanna waste all kinds of time dont really this book cuz its a waste of time. read R L styne instead, his bookz kick a#$.
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Title:Michael Dorris's "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" ASIN: B00006G3IQ Publisher: The Gale Group Pub. Date: 23 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $3.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $3.95 |
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Title: Gay Parents/Straight Schools: Building Communication and Trust by Virginia Casper, Steven B. Schultz, Louise Derman-Sparks ISBN: 0807738247 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: CLOUD CHAMBER: A NOVEL by Michael Dorris ISBN: 0684835355 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 29 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Life Cycle Completed by Erik Homburger Erikson, Joan Mowat Erikson ISBN: 0393317722 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Working Men by Michael Dorris ISBN: 0446670197 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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