Let Me Wear Your Coat edition by John Basil Children eBooks
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The academic curriculum is college prep and the student body hosts house parties every weekend, yet 14-year-old Neil Bricker can’t imagine a worse high school to attend than East Hill Regional.
Shy and wholly disinterested in the opposite sex, Neil is unable to connect with his new, wealthy classmates. Instead, the New Jersey teen devotes his energies to his two favorite passions the British rock 'n' roll group, the Who, and sports -- the latter, serving as a barometer for his fragile self-esteem.
Adding to Neil’s adolescent angst are a bullying classmate and a tense, complex relationship with his adopted African-American brother, who -- despite being the only person of color in their school -- has seamlessly folded into its social scene. Neil is envious of the pair, until a disturbing event reveals he isn’t the only one of the three who’s uncomfortable in his own skin.
Set during the 1979-80 academic year, Let Me Wear Your Coat offers a poignant, painful and humorous take on an era where concert t-shirts, cut-off jeans and feathered hair were in style, and will strike a chord with not only adults who grew up during that time period, but today's teenagers, as well.
Let Me Wear Your Coat edition by John Basil Children eBooks
Let Me Wear Your Coat is a plea for tolerance, empathy and compassion disguised as a coming of age tale. Basil writes compellingly of the adolescent struggle for identity and sense of belonging, but is more interested in the very contemporary and timely issue of achieving a truly diverse society. While the young protagonist Neil Bricker, agonizes over making the school baseball team, he is the unwitting witness to the more profound struggles of identity and self acceptance of his arch nemesis and his own adopted brother.The novel's tragic climax is somewhat softened by the final poignant, yet hopeful image of Neil straddling the gulf between his blissful childhood and the hard realities of facing adulthood in a bigoted and unforgiving society.
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Let Me Wear Your Coat edition by John Basil Children eBooks Reviews
What's it like to be a New Jersey teenager? In the 1970s? The novel, Let Me Wear Your Coat, gives a compelling answer with an authentic, down-to-earth picture of the times and the Jersey teenagers. Neil Bricker at 14 is just starting high school, with plenty of adolescent angst. He also loves sports and 70s rock and roll and is trying out for the freshman basketball team at East Hill Regional. He has one friend, Jon, and not much social life, spending his downtime watching Love Boat and Fantasy Island and brooding in his bunk bed. His emotional life gets complicated when his adopted African-American brother, Marc, becomes friends with a rival on the basketball team. This coming-of-age story has some surprising twists and turns, brought to life in the author's very readable style.
This book was recommended to me and I will admit I approached it with a bit of trepidation when I realized it was a coming of age story. As a genre, I feel that we have trivialized it to the point where coming-of-age is a shibboleth for A Separate Peace, Catcher In the Rye, and Lord of the Flies and precious little else.
The category has been in dire need of a refresh with a more contemporary context and John Basil's Let Me Wear Your Coat certainly fulfills that requirement. His story is set in the late 1970's but this morality play articulates lessons that are acutely relevant today. Basil's protagonist is an Everyman struggling to come to grips with an increasingly complex and bewildering world. His supporting cast personifies good and evil but with a refined ambiguity that adds depth, richness and complexity to his characters without being cliché. His narrative is compelling with several underlying tensions that add a dramatic tautness that engages the reader and demands reflection and introspection.
His characters are interesting and I would welcome a sequel to see how the protagonist applies the insight and wisdom he has gained through the story's denouement. The antagonist is also fascinating and worthy of further understanding.
Basil's Let Me Wear Your Coat is noteworthy for the depth of its players and the poignancy of its narrative. This story takes a welcome place alongside Murakami's Norwegian Wood, S.E. Hinton's Outsiders, and Ayad Akhtar's Dervish. It is that good.
Great coming of age story. Set in a time that was perfect for my era, with a great tale to tell. Fantastic nuances and features in the story too.
Will highly recommend it to friends and anyone who grew up in that time.
Let me Wear your Coat is a cross between Catcher in the Rye and A Final Round. The author has a way of drawing you in that captivates your interest and makes you feel like you are looking through the windows of this boy's life. I could not put it down and was shocked at the ending. Bravo!
This is a fascinating book, well written and complex.
Readable, well constructed around some central themes. Very much a “coming of age” novel that would appeal to “young adults.” Parents might be less happy with the novel, but perhaps it would be an educational experience for them. The wearing coat idea reminds me of the lesson from To Kill a Mockingbird - Scout learns you need to put yourself in the shoes of others in order to understand them. Certainly we suffer with the protagonist, Neil, as he tries to make the transition to high school, doesn’t get chosen for a team, and faces relentless bullying from Thorne and his little gang. Race beomes an issue as does sexual orientation, and Basil doesn't sugarcoat these teenage trials.
The language goes overboard at times, as with the bully’s “perfectly coiffed, feathered blonde hair.” There are effective sports metaphor but jarring lines once in a while, as with a pick-up line at the last call in a bar, a bit adult for Neil.
This is a story of teenagers who have to learn to navigate the roles and expectations that culture and life impose on us. Each of the characters is well developed and the story has a lot to say about the issues that face all individuals as we just live life from day to day. Sometimes we learn the lessons in life and sometimes we just find a way to cope or to escape. There's a little of it all in this book. It's a good, quick read with a lot of meaning.
Let Me Wear Your Coat is a plea for tolerance, empathy and compassion disguised as a coming of age tale. Basil writes compellingly of the adolescent struggle for identity and sense of belonging, but is more interested in the very contemporary and timely issue of achieving a truly diverse society. While the young protagonist Neil Bricker, agonizes over making the school baseball team, he is the unwitting witness to the more profound struggles of identity and self acceptance of his arch nemesis and his own adopted brother.
The novel's tragic climax is somewhat softened by the final poignant, yet hopeful image of Neil straddling the gulf between his blissful childhood and the hard realities of facing adulthood in a bigoted and unforgiving society.
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