The Island

by David Borofka

Fish Becker dreads the summer ahead. His parents plan to ship him off to Oregon to stay with family friends, the Lamberts, while they try to rekindle their marriage in Europe. Ugh. Only boredom will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878448781
• ISBN13: 9781878448781
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Engrossing, emotive and strikingly real.

Borofka creates imaginative, beliveable characters and places them in a universal context, a young boy's coming of age. The story unfolds in Borofka's fluid prose, the events puntuated by flashbacks. The flashbacks depict a fascinating, sometimes supernatural, intricate web enmeshing all the characters up to the present. The vivid imagery and touching details of an eccentric group of poeple make the novel emotive, engrossing, and strikingly real.