Age
12+
Grade
7+
Jack Gantos, Lisa Datz
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
Audio CD
(Listening Library May 16, 2006)
, Unabridged edition
âI expect you might think the story I am about to tell you is untrue or perversely gothic in some unhealthy way. You might even think Iâve exaggerated the facts in order to twist this book into a modern-day metaphor on the exploitation of human creation, as did Mary Shelley with Frankenstein. Maybe youâll think Iâm trying to spook you with a psychological tale of a murderous double as Edgar Allan Poe wrote in âWilliam Wilson,â or to stir up family shame as Hawthorne did in The House of the Seven Gables. But my story is entirely different.â
So begins Jack Gantosâ unnerving drama about three generations of family and friends in a small western Pennsylvania town, held together by the secrets of obsessional mother loveâa love so blood-bound that, once revealed, it has no choice but to turn against its keepers.
- ISBN
- 0739335596 / 9780739335598
- Weight
- 7.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.9 x 6.2
in.