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Whale Talk
By
Chris Crutcher and
Brian Corrigan (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Listening Library
Publication date
February 1, 2002
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13
9780807207086
ISBN-10
080720708X
Dimensions
1.25 by 4.50 by 6.75 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$26.00
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A group of misfits brought together on the Cutter High School swim team look forward to their bus trips to and from swim meets, a time during which they allow themselves to talk, to fit, and to bloom.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Read by Roger Bart
approx. 6 hrs. 45 mins.
4 cassettes
There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant) to find their places in a school that has no place for them. T. J. is convinced that earning the varsity letter jacketâunattainable for most, exclusive, revered, the symbol (as far as T. J. is concerned) of all that is screwed up at Cutter Highâwill prove that they have found their niche. He's right. He's also wrong.
Still, it's always the quest that counts. And the bus on which the Mermen travel to swim meets soon becomes the cocoon inside which they gradually allow themselves to talk, to fit, to bloom.
Chris Crutcher is in top form with a cast of charactersâadults, children, and teenagersâfighting for dignity in a world where tragedy and comedy dance side by side, where a moment's inattention can bring lifelong heartache, and where true acceptance is the only prescription for what ails us.
approx. 6 hrs. 45 mins.
4 cassettes
There's bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don't have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway. A group of misfits brought together by T. J. Jones (the J is redundant) to find their places in a school that has no place for them. T. J. is convinced that earning the varsity letter jacketâunattainable for most, exclusive, revered, the symbol (as far as T. J. is concerned) of all that is screwed up at Cutter Highâwill prove that they have found their niche. He's right. He's also wrong.
Still, it's always the quest that counts. And the bus on which the Mermen travel to swim meets soon becomes the cocoon inside which they gradually allow themselves to talk, to fit, to bloom.
Chris Crutcher is in top form with a cast of charactersâadults, children, and teenagersâfighting for dignity in a world where tragedy and comedy dance side by side, where a moment's inattention can bring lifelong heartache, and where true acceptance is the only prescription for what ails us.
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