ORFAN edition by Corie Skolnick Literature Fiction eBooks
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Soon to be a major motion picture!
Corie Skolnick's debut novel, ORFAN, is currently in development to become a full-length feature film by Ron Shelton Pictures/Hermit's Glen Productions in Los Angeles, California.
Skolnick's original story is in turn, irreverent, funny and sorrowful -- a deft fable populated with a comic and tragic raft of colorful characters. In ORFAN everybody gets skewered religious hypocrites and their greedy institutional masters, the vapid army of the vastly rich and famous with their worshipping minions, and virtually anyone else who shirks their existential duties.
With a sly nod to every orphan story and every writer who wrote them, from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield to John Irving's Garp, ultimately, Skolnick's central truth is self- evident the artist is society's finest teacher.
ORFAN edition by Corie Skolnick Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a delight to read, and unlike anything I have read before. The central character, Jimmy Deane (JD), was adopted at birth in 1969, at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the US. His new white Florida parents didn’t care that their beautiful new son was half black, but by the time he was five his father and mother were dead. From there on life threw everything bad imaginable at him (especially his selfish, racist, alcoholic adoptive grandmother). His saviours came in the form of his imaginary protector, (the real James Dean), Gillis, the old fella next door, his love of music and especially the drums inherited from his father, and his exceptional intelligence. These and a few other memorable characters gave him the resilience he needed to stay true to his inbuilt generosity and charm.It is a fast-paced book, and a page turner, with JD, Gillis, and occasionally other characters telling the story. It is chock full of coincidences, usually advised by editors as a big no-no. But in this novel, they are perfectly right, perhaps because of the fantasy aspects of JD’s relationship with the long dead James Dean. This is a story resonant with moral lessons told with warmth and fun as well as sadness for the ‘orfan’ as little JD saw himself. JD entered my heart before he was even fully born, and stayed firmly in place until the last sentence. I’m sure he is out there somewhere (now aged 47!) still with dreadlocks, playing his drums, and loving his family and friends with all his very big heart.
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ORFAN edition by Corie Skolnick Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I was hooked from the minute I started it. The characters were very vivid and clear in my mind; Corie Skolnick created wonderful imagery of them through their words and actions. Being a loooong-time Florida resident, I saw many "people" in Orfan who are quite familiar to me (for better and for worse.) I was so intrigued with how the plot was unfolding and wondering how the many curiosity-piquing elements were going to tie together. JD is a protagonist I could really cheer for. Numerous times, my heart would be in my chest and tears in my eyes, while I longed to console him and encourage him. Other characters made me want to reach through the pages and slap them silly. JD's story made me think about the need to belong--to a family, a community, a tribe. We are always looking for others who are "like" us, and JD's family ended up being the best kind of all an amalgamation of different people from different backgrounds who are bound by their loyalty and love. What makes a family is not always shared DNA, but it *is* always a shared sense of comfort and acceptance and unconditional love.
Once I started reading, I continued until I finished at 5 am the next morning. Orfan stimulated me to think about our relationship with family and how stereotypes can define us or our views of the world. As a child of the sixties who traveled to Mississippi for civil rights work, I have seen hatred and prejudice and become aware of its more subtle forms as I examined my own motives, but the power of this book comes from how these forces play out in the story of an innocent child. This book is for the person who wants to think about larger concepts and still be touched emotionally by the story. Skolnick provides a narrative that does both. I highly recommend this book.
This is one of those books that by page two you know you are going to be giving everyone you love a copy for Christmas. I was reminded of the way The Help led you into a story in a manner that seemed friendly and easy and the next thing you know you were wildly in love with the characters and the view of how the world worked was altered forever.
I'm not sure where to begin. I finished this book last night and it had me in tears more than once. Sorrowful tears, but also joyous tears. JD is a person who has endured one loss after another throughout his life, but still manages to maintain kindness, even for those who have done him wrong, like his grandmother. Maybe you have even met a person such as this, someone who has endured more tragedy than we can even fathom, and yet they not only survive, but inspire us by their grace. This is JD.
The author examines our flaws with irreverence, but also with humor and sensitivity. I was so impressed with the voice in this book.
I did have one tiny little issue. By and large, I don't have problems with shifts in the characters' point of view. However, there were some sections in this book where the shifts were so abrupt that I had a little difficulty following who was thinking what. I also would have enjoyed being inside JD's head a bit more in the second half of the novel.
The author shared several poignant insights throughout, but one of my favorites was toward the end, when JD's emotional well-being seems it might be on the skids.
"When someone rides our train, and we become fond of them, and then, for some reason unknown to us, they have to get off at another station, how do we endure the pain and go on? How do we decide to keep on riding the train to our own conclusion? I'll tell you how. It is nothing more than a conscious decision to accept the pain of loss as the inevitable price we must pay for the relationship and the love and joy we experience as part of it."
Just beautiful. Thank you Corie Skolnick for sharing this amazing work.
This book is like no other I've read. It covers roughly a twenty-year span, which sometimes goes slowly; you feel you are watching things unfold in real time, and sometimes the time in the plot flies by. The author changes point of view among several of the characters--usually ill-advised in novels, but here it works seamlessly, and adds another dimension entirely to the story. I was so deeply invested in the main character, and was totally taken by surprise by more than one plot twist. This is a story of the times, beginning in the throes of the civil rights movement, and the deeper issues of adoption are carried through in a painfully beautiful way. No matter what your preferred genre, "Orfan" is sure to grab your mind and heart.
This is a delight to read, and unlike anything I have read before. The central character, Jimmy Deane (JD), was adopted at birth in 1969, at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the US. His new white Florida parents didn’t care that their beautiful new son was half black, but by the time he was five his father and mother were dead. From there on life threw everything bad imaginable at him (especially his selfish, racist, alcoholic adoptive grandmother). His saviours came in the form of his imaginary protector, (the real James Dean), Gillis, the old fella next door, his love of music and especially the drums inherited from his father, and his exceptional intelligence. These and a few other memorable characters gave him the resilience he needed to stay true to his inbuilt generosity and charm.
It is a fast-paced book, and a page turner, with JD, Gillis, and occasionally other characters telling the story. It is chock full of coincidences, usually advised by editors as a big no-no. But in this novel, they are perfectly right, perhaps because of the fantasy aspects of JD’s relationship with the long dead James Dean. This is a story resonant with moral lessons told with warmth and fun as well as sadness for the ‘orfan’ as little JD saw himself. JD entered my heart before he was even fully born, and stayed firmly in place until the last sentence. I’m sure he is out there somewhere (now aged 47!) still with dreadlocks, playing his drums, and loving his family and friends with all his very big heart.
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