Sleep before Evening by Magdalena Ball
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- ISBN: 1904492967
- Publisher: Bewrite Books
- Pub. Date: July 2007
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Sleep before Eveningby Anonymous
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02/24/2008: The momentum builds with this book and it is an emotionally charged read. The author, Magdalena Ball, presents a compelling narrative of a modern teenager drawn to the darker side of life after the loss of the only stable person in her otherwise chaotic home life. It is an interesting story, well researched and written to allow us an inside look at the reasons young people are drawn to drugs as a quick fix for underlying problems, and the effects this has on their lives. The subject of this book, creative and talented, the daughter of an artist, is subjected to her mother?s demons on a regular basis, and copes until she feels betrayed, and then begins her downward slide into a very different world. She is assisted in her journey by others who have forsaken an ordinary life for one of seemingly endless escapades into volatile situations. This could be a true story and one many people may readily face in an intimate family situation and is a touch poignant at times. But it has a message for us all and an indication of the author?s ability to weave an intriguing story around the fragility of a character unable to communicate her own needs when confronted with life?s pressing issues.
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12/20/2007: The drug scenes are written with an intensity that I have rarely experienced in literature, or any other medium for that matter. The words and sentences beautifully drift through this melancholy, but never hopeless, foggy reality of drug abuse and self-searching and beauty and longing. The change and growth the protagonist goes through from the beginning to the end is nothing short of extraordinary, rendered almost impeccably, and the dialogue throughout feels as real as those dark shadows that hang out on that whiskey corner just down the street from my place, street-talking their way to the next hit, the next kiss, the next anything...kudos to Magdelena ball , 'Sleep Before Evening' is a beautiful book. quite the accomplishment...
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