by Paula Fox · Noguer Y Caralt Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427932135
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«La cometa rota» is the young adult novel by Paula Fox, published by Noguer Y Caralt Editores in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
Liam is a teenager who has kept a secret for three years, since he saw his father with another man on the beach, the day the kite his father had given him lay broken in the sand. His father is ill with AIDS, but the family avoids saying that word. The novel deals with family secrets and homosexuality.
Published in 1997, it is part of the Jóvenes Adultos Novela collection by Noguer Y Caralt Editores.
Novel aimed at young adults and teenagers; recommended reading from age 14.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
