The Long Walk and the Terrible Joke
The Long Walk and the Terrible Joke
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A child's memory of a grandfather is made of three or four specific things, and this book knows which ones.
The long walk. The terrible joke. The pocket that always had something in it. The story remembers a first Christmas together in those terms rather than in the terms an adult would choose, and both names go in. Nothing is dramatised and nothing is summed up; the book simply puts the details down in the order a child would offer them. Hardcover.
It lands differently read out loud, which is worth knowing before you give it. Read silently it is a pleasant list; read across a room to the man it describes it becomes something else, mostly because everyone present recognises the pocket. Choose your moment — after dinner, before anybody leaves.