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    The Children and the Wolves
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    The Children and the Wolves

    Written by Adam Rapp

    Narrated by Amy Rubinate and Nick Podehl

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    About this audiobook

    Genius girl, Bounce, and her two drifter sidekicks, Wiggins and Orange, are holding the Frog hostage. As the stakes grow higher and the guilt and tension mount, Wiggins begins to question his complicity and must choose where his loyalties lie. Not for the faint of heart, Adam Rapp's mesmerizing narrative told in alternating viewpoints ventures deep into disturbing territory. A powerful, unforgettable story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 28, 2012
    ISBN9781455829521
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    The Children and the Wolves
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    Adam Rapp

    Adam Rapp is an OBIE Award-winning playwright and director, as well as a novelist, filmmaker, actor, and musician. His play The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois had its world première last month at South Coast Repertory. His other plays include Red Light Winter (Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association, a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best New Play, two OBIE Awards, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize), Blackbird, The Metal Children, Finer Noble Gases, Through The Yellow Hour, The Hallway Trilogy, Nocturne, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, Animals and Plants, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Faster, Gompers, Essential Self-Defense, American Slingo, and Kindness. For film, he wrote the screenplay for Winter Passing; and recently directed Loitering with Intent. Rapp has been the recipient of the 1999 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting, a 2000 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 2001 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and Boston’s Elliot Norton Award; and was short-listed for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, received the 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a 2007 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, and the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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    • 3/5
      Deeply disturbing.
    • 5/5
      Adam Rapp once again demonstrates his mastery of raw, penetrating prose and bleak imagery. A grim, haunting story.
    • 4/5
      I don't know what to think of this one. I was definitely pleased it was such a quick read since it is so thoroughly unpleasant. There are readers who would love it, but I am not one of them - for one thing I like a little humor for leavening in my books and there really wasn't any here. Rapp is dealing with some pretty heavy themes - this is basically an indictment of American consumerist society for one. How does violence in our entertainment influence our children? (Bounce's love of Ultimate Fighting, the video game Frog plays, etc.) One of the criticisms I've read of this is that the voices of Orange and Wiggins aren't distinct from each other, but I actually didn't think that was true. I thought all four voices were easily recognizable. Bounce is a terrifying character and I pity whichever school she ends up at - prep or otherwise. I can see Rapp's craft and the thought-provoking elements - and there's plenty of metaphor to look at in Frog's video game in particular - but I can't decide how successful he is because I'm so distracted by the unremitting grimness of things. It almost feels like a cautiionary tale - "if we don't do a better job taking care of our children, this is where we're going to end up." It's also so lean that it feels almost like a sketch at times. I guess I'm going to come down on the side of this being really well crafted, but not at all for me and quite depressing in general.
    • 2/5
      Totally not sure about this one. For starters I know it's not my kind of book, but I'm having a hard time knowing whose kind of book it is. Three teens--one a very smart girl, the other two her dim-bulb guy friends--mastermind a plot to kidnap a young girl and collect money for a rescue effort.

      The teens are supposed to be in 8th grade, but they read much older. Lots of sexual references and drug use make this most appropriate for older teens but the young age of the characters might turn those older teens off, I dunno.

      I think Adam Rapp just isn't for me. It's not a bad book, but totally not for me.
    • 4/5
      There are books out there that don't so much entertain the reader as hit the reader over the head. THE CHILDREN AND THE WOLVES is one of these books. Told in multiple perspectives, it's the story of three troubled teens and the little girl that they've kidnapped.Yes, you read that right. Teenage kidnappers. Most of the characters in this novel are middle school age.And yet, you feel for these kids. You want them to grow, to do the right thing, to get what they want in life. You want Bounce to maybe not be a sociopath and to find a way to deal with her wealthy, neglectful parents. You want Orange to find a way to help his dad or at the very least help himself. And you want Wiggins to overcome his situation at home, stand up to his friends, and to let the little girl go. He takes care of her, he brings her food, lets her play her video game. But he knows it's not right. Wiggins is the hero of this book as well as one of the villains. And with Adam Rapp's lyric style, his voice is so honest, so real. As are his cohorts. And, hauntingly, the voice of The Frog -- as they've dubbed the little girl -- is just as distinct. THE CHILDREN AND THE WOLVES is a beautiful book about horrible things. It's a story that maybe shouldn't work, but Adam Rapp makes it happen. I hope you're intrigued enough to check the book out for yourself.