Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in
Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named
Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when
he is “grounded for life” by his feuding parents, and whose nose
spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of
excitement and shocks are coming Jack’s way once his mom loans
him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual
chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people
who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another,
Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax,
Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl
Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the
past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder.
Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author
at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most
unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a
slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is
confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.
關於作者：
Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from
picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults
and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won
the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza
Swallowed the Key, a National Book Award Finalist, and Joey Pigza
Loses Control, a Newbery Honor book.
Jack was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, and grew up in
nearby Norvelt. When he was seven, his family moved to Barbados. He
attended British schools, where there was much emphasis on reading
and writing, and teachers made learning a lot of fun. When the
family moved to south Florida, he found his new classmates
uninterested in their studies, and his teachers spent most of their
time disciplining students. Jack retreated to an abandoned
bookmobile three flat tires and empty of books parked out behind
the sandy ball field, and read for most of the day. The seeds for
Jack’s writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his
sister’s diary and decided he could write better than she could. He
begged his mother for a diary and began to collect anecdotes he
overheard at school, mostly from standing outside the teachers’
lounge and listening to their lunchtime conversations. Later, he
incorporated many of these anecdotes into stories.
While in college, he and an illustrator friend, Nicole Rubel, began
working on picture books. After a series of well-deserved
rejections, they published their first book, Rotten Ralph, in 1976.
It was a success and the beginning of Jack’s career as a
professional writer. Jack continued to write children’s books and
began to teach courses in children’s book writing and children’s
literature. He developed the master’s degree program in children’s
book writing at Emerson College and the Vermont College M.F.A.
program for children’s book writers. He now devotes his time to
writing books and educational speaking. He lives with his family in
Boston, Massachusetts.
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