- Published: 1 October 2010
- ISBN: 9781409047377
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
The Beet Fields
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 October 2010
- ISBN: 9781409047377
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
A masterly piece of storytelling
Jan Mark, Carousel
Exceptional and so heartbreakingly real
Booklist
Not for the faint-hearted, opening with a sickening scene of incest forcing a 16-year-old boy to leave home and gathering momentum with gritty, though never gratuitous, scenes of painful childbirth, pigeon neck-ringing and exploding pheasants. But it works
Eileen Armstrong, The School Librarian
Paulsen's coming-of-age memoir is nearly Steinbeckian in its unadorned but effective prose, and the events of the author's young life have a universality that will draw in readers heading for their own rites of passage
Bulletin