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Echo
By Block, Francesca Lia
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06028-127-4 978-0-06028-128-1
- Publisher
- Cotler HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2001
Gr 9-Up Echo is the daughter of a magically angelic mother and a painter. When her father is diagnosed with cancer, the family's world turns on end. While she intensifies her search for self, for someone or something to make her feel beautiful and real, her mother is preoccupied with healing her husband. The teen's search propels her to dance with the demons of anorexia, leads her to dabble with sexy vampires, introduces her to rock st...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2001
Covering familiar ground, Block revisits dying-artist-father/starving-daughter territory and comes up with an involving coming-of-age romance. Young Echo, like her mythological namesake, has no voice of her own. Instead, she copies other people, trying to become them; she knows a lot about others and almost nothing about herself. She falls hopelessly in love, not with Narcissus, but with a boy/angel who ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
