<i>Bullet Point</i> (review)
2010; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.0.1952
ISSN1558-6766
Autores Tópico(s)American Sports and Literature
ResumoReviewed by: Bullet Point Elizabeth Bush Abrahams, Peter . Bullet Point. HarperTeen, 2010. 294p. ISBN 978-0-06-122769-1 $16.99 R Gr. 9-12. Just as Wyatt Lathem's baseball dreams are about to fall victim to high-school budget cuts and the demise of the sports program, he gets a chance to solve not only that problem but another as well. If he accompanies his friend Dub to enroll in a high school in another part of the state, he can eventually establish residence and play ball as well as stay clear of his abusive stepfather, Rusty. Soon after Wyatt arrives in Silver City, he is befriended and ultimately seduced by an older girl, Greer, whose father is incarcerated in the nearby penitentiary. As it turns out, Wyatt's biological father, Sonny Racine, is in there too, and Greer encourages Wyatt to finally meet the father he never knew. As Wyatt learns more and more about the circumstances of his father's arrest for murder, he feels less and less certain of where he stands with Greer, who seems to be feeding information to Sonny through her own father. Wyatt is driven to investigate his father's case, and just as he becomes convinced [End Page 468] of his dad's innocence, Sonny makes a jailbreak and corners his son into abetting brutal acts of vengeance. While characterizations tend to waver at times, this is really all about the triple teen fantasies of independence, sex, and danger, all of which Abrahams serves up generously in a tale that manages to be as involving as it is improbable. Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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