Advantages: ERM ......none!! Disadvantages: It's dreadful, very hard to understand
...a VERY long time!!!
Winkie is the 2006 debut novel of author American author Clifford Chase, let’s just say that I shan’t be in a hurry to read book number two!!
Seemingly - “Cliff Chase stunned the literary world with the 2006 release of WINKIE, his first novel, which has garnered rave reviews from editors and readers alike.” – Well I think that they must all have read a different book than I did
The reviews I had read for this book sounded good. ... ...believe me!!!
‘"Huh," said Winkie to himself, standing on the window box, looking around. "So this is the world."’
Winkie is a tatty. 80- year old teddy bear who is tired of being neglected by all the children who had once loved him.
In desperation Winkie (who could be male or female as children have changed his/her sex over the years - but was once a female called Marie) throws himself/herself off the shelf where he/she has been left to decay, ...
oldchem 31.07.2009
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Advantages: An interesting and strangely touching book!! Disadvantages: A rather strange book !!
Winkie is an 80 year old mangy teddy bear- or is he?? or she ??
Confused?
It gets worse!!
Winkie used to be a girl in the 1920's and was called Marie!!
Winkie is made of mohair, he has glass eyes, metal-hinge joints and a squeaker that doesn't squeak.
More confused?
And there's more!!
Winkie remembers his first and his last owner, and the time each of them stopped loving him. Winkie has been arrested for terrorist activities and is accused ... ...Winkie
"The little baby Winkie gently woke. It looked up wondering at the cool drops' source, into its mother-father's moist, knowing eyes, and saw galaxies reflected."
But then poor Winkie is arrested by a small army of law enforcement agents for reasons he can't really understand.
And that basically is the plot, telling any more of the story would spoil the book for future readers, so I will stop myself from telling you any more.
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baherbc 30.07.2009
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