Night Driving by John Coy
From Republic to Empire challenges the long-held view that Silius Italicus' Punica is a nostalgic epic and argues that it is, instead, centrally concerned with and fundamentally shaped by the contemporary Flavian world in which it was composed. The epic documents how Rome's Republic took its first steps toward becoming an Empire during the Second Punic War and identifies the leader Scipio Africanus as the critical impetus behind this development: his rise to prominence in the war's later stages brings about a change in Rome's power-structure, a shift toward one-man rule, Scipio's rule, that prefigures and paves the way for the political arrangement under which the poet himself lived, the Principate. In portraying Scipio as a good king and a virtuous princeps, Silius, furthermore, offers the emperor of his own day, Domitian, a leadership-ideal to aspire to and emulate.
John Coy is an award-winning author, who worked as a dishwasher, mattress maker, and tour guide before taking up writing. He's active in sports and is a member of the NBA Reading All-Star Team as part of the Read to Achieve program. John has traveled to all fifty states as well as to many countries internationally.
His work includes Strong to the Hoop, an American Library Association Notable Book, Night Driving, a Marion Vannett Ridgway Memorial Award winner and a Horn Book Fanfare title, Two Old Potatoes and Me, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, a Nickelodeon Jr. s Best Books of the Year, and a featured book on PBS Reading Rainbow, and Vroomaloom Zoom, a book of excellence on the Children s Literature Choice List. His newest picture book Around the World is about international basketball.
John s latest title is Crackback, a young adult novel that reveals the high stakes world of high school football as a young player finds himself in a difficult situation. John's experience as a defensive back on his high school football team brings an authentic voice to which readers will be able to relate. As a boy I loved playing football in the back yard and later in organized games, says John. Football was the one place where smashing into people was not only okay, it was rewarded.
The idea for the novel came when he wrote Strong to the Hoop. My editor for Strong to the Hoop said that the language and action convinced her that I had a novel in me and that she would like to see it when I wrote it, John states. When I was ready to write it, the topic that grabbed me was high school football.
John also wanted to convey his belief that it is impossible to overestimate the degree of identification some teenagers have with sports. I was such a teenager, and my choices for reading such books were much more limited than the options available today.
John Coy writes and plays sports in Minnesota and wherever else he can join a game.
His work includes Strong to the Hoop, an American Library Association Notable Book, Night Driving, a Marion Vannett Ridgway Memorial Award winner and a Horn Book Fanfare title, Two Old Potatoes and Me, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, a Nickelodeon Jr. s Best Books of the Year, and a featured book on PBS Reading Rainbow, and Vroomaloom Zoom, a book of excellence on the Children s Literature Choice List. His newest picture book Around the World is about international basketball.
John s latest title is Crackback, a young adult novel that reveals the high stakes world of high school football as a young player finds himself in a difficult situation. John's experience as a defensive back on his high school football team brings an authentic voice to which readers will be able to relate. As a boy I loved playing football in the back yard and later in organized games, says John. Football was the one place where smashing into people was not only okay, it was rewarded.
The idea for the novel came when he wrote Strong to the Hoop. My editor for Strong to the Hoop said that the language and action convinced her that I had a novel in me and that she would like to see it when I wrote it, John states. When I was ready to write it, the topic that grabbed me was high school football.
John also wanted to convey his belief that it is impossible to overestimate the degree of identification some teenagers have with sports. I was such a teenager, and my choices for reading such books were much more limited than the options available today.
John Coy writes and plays sports in Minnesota and wherever else he can join a game.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9780805067088 |
| ISBN 10 | 0805067086 |
| Titel | Night Driving |
| Autor | John Coy |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Square Fish |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2001-05-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 32 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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