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Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
Verlag: Firebird; Auflage: Reissue (17. Juni 2004)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0142401544
ISBN-13: 978-0142401545
Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 14 - 17 Jahre
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 17,8 x 10,8 x 2,4 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (12 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 148.204 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Peter S. Beagle creates magic in this coming-of-age ghost story, returning to a subgenre he first explored in A Fine and Private Place. When her mother remarries, 13-year-old narrator Jenny Gluckstein moves from New York City to a run-down, haunted, 300-year-old farm in Dorset, England. In slow-moving early chapters, unhappy Jenny's beloved Mister Cat is quarantined for six months and she must attend an English girl's school. Jenny's voice is painfully genuine, her self-description merciless. If early adolescence brings on flashbacks, wait to read this book.

The pace picks up when Mister Cat returns and Jenny meets Meena Chari, whose belief in the supernatural comes from growing up in ghost-ridden India. First Mister Cat finds a new girlfriend, a ghostly Persian Cat only he and Jenny can see. Then she and her younger stepbrother, Julian, confront a boggart who's been playing tricks on the family. The gnome-like boggart is dressed in a Seven Dwarves hat, Robin Hood garb, "and heavy little boots, ankle-high--I'd have taken them for Doc Martens, except I don't think they make them in boggart sizes." The boggart warns her to beware of the ghost cat, her mistress, and "the Other One" most of all. But one afternoon she follows Mister Cat to meet Tamsin Willoughby, ghost of the farm-founder's daughter. Tamsin is friendly, but won't tell Jenny anything about the Other One, or talk about Edric, apparently her lost love. To free Tamsin's ghost, Jenny must relive the tragic history of 17th-century Dorset and face grave danger.

Tamsin is vintage Beagle: there's a shape-shifting Pooka, a ghostly love story, music, the Goddess, and the Wild Hunt. It's beautifully written and can be read on several levels, including as a loving homage to Thomas Hardy's moody novels (Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd) and poetry (Selected Poems). Or you can lose yourself in the story. Fans of The Last Unicorn will enjoy this one. --Nona Vero -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Jenny Gluckstein is an affluent, pot-smoking, spoiled, certain-she's-ugly New York City teenager. She goes on for a while in a whiny, Holden Caulfield^-like persona, which is a little hard to take. Luckily, her mother, Sally, a musician, falls in love with an agronomist named Evan and follows him to Dorset, England, because he has been hired to restore to productivity a rundown farm. Jenny, tagging along, remains sullen, but in spite of herself feels drawn to the old house and to the farm itself, full of dark woods and mysterious meadows where she hears voices. Chasing her cat, Jenny catches a glimpse of what he's chasing: a female cat, as it turns out, a 300-year-old ghost of a cat, who belongs to a ghost, Tamsin Willoughby, who is marooned in a secret chamber that Jenny presently discovers. Because Tamsin's soul is uneasy, it haunts the farm where she died; but to unhappy Jenny, Tamsin is a secret friend from whom she draws advice and solace. Eventually, in helping poor Tamsin find the secret of her lost love and defeat the "Wild Hunt," or the lost souls that swarm through the air at odd times, pursued by demons, Jenny grows up and is able to look back upon her tale from the grand old age of 19. Although nowhere labeled as such, Tamsin is a fine young adult novel. Despite its meandering beginning, it may be the best of its kind this year. John Mort -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Truly wonderful - a real page-turner! 31. Mai 2000

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„Tamsin", Peter Beagle's latest book, shows once again what a wonderful writer he is. The book tells us the story of Jenny Gluckstein, a teenager from New York, who is forced to move to the english countryside because of her mother's marriage. At first, she she hates her new home and family. But then she meets Tamsin, the ghost of a girl who lived in the farmhouse 300 years ago. She befriends her and, bit by bit, gets deeper and deeper involved in the story involving Tamsin's tragical death. She discoveres that her neighbourhood is full of creatures both magical and spooky and, at the end, has to call on their help to save Tamsin's soul from unspeakable evil... Although this book will be found in the young adults section, everyone who has still got their sense of wonder left should read it. As usual, Beagle's wonderfully poetic style of writing makes the characters leap out of the page, be they magical or other, and as the reader discovers more and more of Tamsin's secret, the books becomes a real page-turner! (Dies ist eine Amazon.de an der Uni-Studentenrezension.)

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Brilliant 14. M�rz 2000

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I loved 'Tamsin'. I was quite surprised to read that it's a "Young Adult" novel. I'm far from being a young adult and I loved it.

I almost gave up on this book early into it. The first 50 pages sounded exactly like one of those awful books you had to read in grade school, you know..the ones about children growing up without parents and how tough life is. But then this grew into a magical exploration of the ghosts and goblins of England. Highly Recommended.

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Makes you believe... 1. Mai 2000

Von A. Creech

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This is a highly enjoyable ghost story. Ninteen year old New Yorker Jenny is looking back on the events that took place after she and her mother move to a run-down farm in Dorset, England to live with her stepfather and stepbrothers. Along with the story of Jenny coming to terms with her new stepfamily and settling in to a new school where she feels like an outsider, we also have the story of Tamsin.

Tamsin is the daughter of the original owner of the farm, from the fifteenth century. For some reason, Tamsin does not leave the farmhouse after her tragic early death, but hangs around in ghost form, along with her ghost cat. When Jenny sees and speaks to Tamsin, this seems to stir up all of the characters of myth and legend that abound in Dorset--Pookahs, Billy Blinds, and the Black Dog, who appears as an omen of something terrible to come.

Yet as we find out more about Tamsin's past, and Jenny is drawn deeper and deeper into the place where past and present meet, we realize that not all of these characters are merely mischevious--some are downright evil.

This book builds to a whirlwind climax that will have you on the edge of your set. It manages to be a thrilling ghost story while also a satisfying story of family life and "coming-of-age".

Very enjoyable.

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