What is The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs? As a book, it's sort of what would happen if an old VC Andrews plot fell into the hands of a good writer and a better editor, and the pages of gratuitous sex were removed. As a concept, the Love Curse is an excessive, obsessive mother-love, an Oedipal complex passed down through the generations/5(14). JACK GANTOS is the author of over fifty books for children from the ROTTEN RALPH picture books, collections of JACK HENRY short stories (5 in the series), upper elementary and middle school JOEY PIGZA novels (5 in the series), DEAD END IN NORVELT (Newbery Award) and FROM NORVELT TO NOWHERE, young adult novels--THE TROUBLE IN ME, LOVE CURSE OF THE RUMBAUGHS, /5(27). Buy a cheap copy of The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs book by Jack Gantos. On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh pharmacy across the street from the hotel Free shipping over $
Jack Gantos. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gantos is the author of dozens of published picture books including about twenty illustrated by Nicole Rubel. The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs (). Dead End in Norvelt (). So begins Jack Gantos' unnerving drama about three generations of family and friends in a small western Pennsylvania town, held together by the secrets of obsessional mother love-a love so blood-bound that, once revealed, it has no choice but to turn against its keepers. Rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as Ivy will learn over the. coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own. mother. In his third book for young adults, Jack Gantos has scripted a. completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound.
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs was a bizarre and unusual book. The novel presented different viewpoints on free will, love, and the concept of "superior genetics" which I found interesting. But the book took the taxidermy hobby and obsessive love of a mother a bit too far. Also, the time skipped around, which I found confusing. Always adept at creating exuberant, larger-than-life characters, Gantos here creates two who are even larger than death, in a psychological horror story of the highest order. Rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as Ivy will learn over the coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own mother. In his third book for young adults, Jack Gantos has scripted a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion and a passion for taxidermy.
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