Comments | elisa_rolle: Best Coming of Age / Young Adult Novel (1° place): Josef Jaeger by Jere' M. Fishback

elisa_rolle

Best Coming of Age / Young Adult Novel (1° place): Josef Jaeger by Jere' M. Fishback

May 21, 2009 00:08

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review, rainbow awards 2009, theme: virgins, author: jere' m. fishback, genre: historical, theme: coming of age, length: novel

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elisa_rolle May 21 2009, 06:58:55 UTC

And this is an important evolution of the story that you will discover only reading it ;-) Elisa

luci0logy May 21 2009, 05:48:28 UTC

Love the cover design.

elisa_rolle May 21 2009, 06:59:18 UTC

Rose Lenoir is one of the best cover artist I know. Elisa

Josef anonymous May 21 2009, 09:39:32 UTC

My novel 'Vienna Dolorosa' explores similar events too, living gay under Nazi control. Though it happens one day, when the Nazis took over Austria, the characters in my novel represent all of life under Nazi control, street urchins selling themselves, boys who dress as girls, all dolling themselves up to be pretty just to survive...

'Josef Jaeger' has similar outcast themes and is definitely a book I'm interested in. Those themes and events still fascinate me...

Re: Josef elisa_rolle May 21 2009, 09:43:29 UTC

I believe your "Vienna Dolorosa" is like the title, more "painful" than Josef Jaeger. In a way Josef, facing the life like a big stage, shields himself from the reality outside. But yes, you are right, even Josef to survive, in the end play a role where he has to be the pretty boy. Elisa