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基本信息·出版社：Bantam Books
·页码：208 页
·出版日期：1983年10月
·ISBN：0553273221
·条形码：9780553273229
·版本：第1版
·装帧：简装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：四月的早晨
内容简介 April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast depicting the Battle of Lexington and Concord from the perspective of a fictional teenager, Adam Cooper. It takes place in the 24-hour period from April 18, 1775 to the aftermath of the battle. During that stretch, Adam comes of age and resolves his difficulties with his intellectually demanding father.
While the novel was not originally written as a young adult novel, it has increasingly been assigned in middle school English and social studies classes due to the age of the protagonist and Fast’s meticulous efforts to recreate the texture of daily life in colonial America and the political currents on the eve of the American Revolution. In 1988 a film version was made for television starring Chad Lowe as Adam and Tommy Lee Jones as his father. It is often shown in classes where the book is read.
When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout at the top of your lungs because you are there, at the birth of freedom -- you're a veteran of the Battle of Lexington, and you've helped whip the King's best soldiers...
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 175 Width (mm) 107
作者简介 Howard Fast
Howard Fast (1914–2003), American author, b. New York City. A prolific writer, he is best known for historical novels that mainly concern rebellion against various forms of tyranny. They include Citizen Tom Payne (1943), Freedom Road (1944), My Glorious Brothers (1948), Spartacus (1951), and April Morning (1961). Among his later novels is a lengthy multivolume, multigenerational family saga set in San Francisco: The Immigrants (1977), Second Generation (1978), The Establishment (1979), The Legacy (1981), The Immigrant's Daughter (1985), and An Independent Woman (1997). His last works of fiction include the novels Redemption (1999) and Greenwich (2000). From 1943 to 1956, Fast was a member of the American Communist party. He served a prison term (1950) for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and his books were purged from American school libraries; in 1953 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. The Naked God (1957) is an account of Fast's political experiences, and the memoir Being Red (1990) further explores the issues involved. He also wrote essays, science fiction, short stories, biographies, screenplays, poetry, and mysteries (many under the name E. V. Cunningham).
媒体推荐 Spotlight Reviews
1.A Teacher's Point of View, January 8, 2001
Reviewer: D. Rizzo (United States)
We use this book in our eighth grade language arts class, and while I agree with other reviewers that this isn't the Great American Novel, it does a terrific job with characterization (I don't know who back there thinks that Adam wasn't "described" enough, but his looks are irrelevant; his personality is clear, believable, and accurate from the context of his family and town). The story, which I agree can be a bit stale, takes place over 24 hours, which is a neat gimmick. The old fashioned attitudes and perspectives can put off some readers, but reading this book for the purpose of learning about the time period, the beginning of the American Revolution, and understanding that modern people aren't so very different from their forefathers does indeed save it.
2. Service to American History, August 14, 2000
Reviewer: Darrell Fawley, III (Canal Winchester, Ohio United States)
This book follows the course of history and puts yu into the first battle of the Revolutionary War. As you read you will not only receive a good tale but also a lesson in history. The book made me proud to be an American reading about the farmer's who fought with their bird guns and hunting rifles and teamed up to deal the initial blow to the Red Coats. A good read for all ages!
Customer Reviews
1.Excellent, eye-opening , August 31, 2006
Reviewer: Elizabeth Clare "co-author of To the Ends of the Earth: The Last Journey of Lewis and Clark" (Austin, TX)
"A boy becomes a man" is been the theme of countless novels. April Morning, written in 1961, reveals what a skilled writer can do with a basic idea. The novel starts innocently with Adam Cooper, a 15-year-old Lexington boy, being scolded by his stern father for laziness in doing his afternoon chores. But today is no ordinary day. As the evening progresses, Adam's dad is called to a town committee meeting--it seems the British are marching out of Boston to seize the colonists' arsenal and put them back in their places.
April Morning is a short book, but it at first seems to unfold quite slowly. There is plenty of time to see Adam clash with his pompous dad, seek solace from his tart-tongued grandmother, argue with his little brother, and grab a furtive kiss with his young girlfriend. The modern reader, used to each book opening with an exploding helicopter, might be forgiven for wondering where Fast is going with all this.
Then something happens that is so shocking and so unexpected, that we, like Adam, are thrown forever out of the ordinary world and into the nightmarish beginning of war. In the course of the next hours, Adam is forced to confront the realities of a war he never asked for and a world that is forever changed.
2.A High School Junior Remembers, January 25, 2006
Reviewer: Kelly (New York, New York, USA)
I read this book my freshman year of high school. Looking back, it was a slow book in my mind. However, that was mostly because we read it section by section and discussed each one. If I were to have read it on my own I would have been through it in about a day or two. While not everything in it is exactly accurate, the story of Adam is an inspiring one.
I feel that this is a book for a high school level reader and maybe at the least a mature high school reader. A lot of the events and ideas presented are not for those who do not take war and death seriously.
While a lot of people have said they read it and would never want to read it again, I have to differ. I would gladly read this book over and over. It sits on my shelf of classics that include A Separate Peace, The Great Gatsby, Les Miserables and the like.
