dave king's the ha-ha
ok, so this is about a guy who got a massive head wound in vietnam and can't speak or write or anything and has trouble communicating (it's never explained why he never learned sign language after all that). when an old girlfriend asks him to care for her son while she's in rehab, his whole life starts to change. it's a good book, but very depressing at times.
the title refers to some landscaping thing that like hides roadways or something--it was defined like three times but i just couldn't visualize it. probably it's symbolic or something; there's one of those reader's guides in the back with the sorts of questions that might arise in a high school english class.
4 comments:
sarah--i'm glad i'm not the only one!
minty--i'll be curious to see what you think. warning: some bits are a little cringe-inducing.
Here are pictures of a ha-ha:
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/lanar524/HaHa-tn.jpeg
one from the BBC
http://www.stjohns-nottm.ac.uk/html/images/collegeview.jpg
It's like an invisible fence...imagine you have a really big house in the English countryside, and your lawn spreads all around your house. You stand on your portico and look out at the horizon...you can't see the boundary between your lawn and the surrounding countryside. Oh! I love 18th century English architecture!
There is one at Mount Vernon that I've seen.
Yep, I thought those links wouldn't display nicely. Here are the other two:
a ha-ha
another one
thanks for the links! suddenly this book makes a lot more sense.
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