The Mind's Eye: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 146686026X
- ISBN-13
- 9781466860261
- Category
- Young Adult Fiction
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-12-17
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
- Author
- Paul Fleischman
Description
Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal cord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world, the only resource they have left is their imagination. As Elva and Courtney go on a fantasy trip to Italy (accompanied by Elva's long dead husband and guided by a 1910 travel book), Elva shows Courtney a new way to envision love. But to accept it, and the gift of the imagination, Courtney must make the trip her own--even if she destroys the art Elva holds most dear. Written entirely in dialogue, The Mind's Eye can be performed as reader's theater, but it is a fully satisfying novel. In this extraordinarily innovative, profound, and yet readable book Paul Fleischman makes us all feel what a powerful--and dangerous--tool the imagination can be.
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Other editions
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- 2011-12
- 272 pages
- Paperback
- Bantam Press
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