Rose  Poe, Jack Todd
Rose  Poe, Jack Todd
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Rose & Poe

Author: Jack Todd

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Unabridged: 6 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/17/2017


Synopsis

Set in mythical Belle Coeur County in a time not too far from our own, Rose & Poe gloriously re-imagines Shakespeare's The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother.

Rose and her giant, simple son, Poe, live quietly on the fringes of their town—tending their goats and working at odd jobs. Prosper Thorne, banished from his big-city law practice and worrying about his fading memory, obsessively watches over his beloved daughter Miranda.

When Poe erupts from the forest one day carrying Miranda's bruised and bloody body, he is arrested, despite his protestations of get help-get help-get help. Overnight, Rose and Poe find themselves pariahs in the county where they have lived all their lives. In the face of bitter hatred and threats from her neighbors, the implacable Rose devotes all her strength to proving Poe's innocence and saving him from prison or worse.

Rose & Poe is a tale of a mother's boundless love for an apparently unlovable child, and a stunning fable for our own troubled times. It will stick in your memory like sweet wild honey.

About Jack Todd

Jack Todd was born and grew up in Nebraska. He came to Canada during the Vietnam War and eventually settled in Montreal, where he has been a columnist for the Montreal Gazette for nearly thirty years. He is the author of a memoir and four novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dannii

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the author, Jack Todd, and the publisher, ECW Press, for this opportunity. Set in the mythical Belle Coeur County, this is the tale of free-spirited Rose and her gentle giant of a son, Poe, who live a quiet and relatively s......more

Goodreads review by Roger

Sweetness The blurb calls this a rewriting of The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother, but it would be easy to make too much of this. True, there is a grand old man, Prosper Thorne, exiled in a similar way to his near-namesake and also the possessor of a wondrous staff, but he is......more

Oh, my heart.  This story packs such an emotional punch!  The writing is simple and lovely – you will absolutely fall in love with both Rose and Poe. Poe immediately brought to mind Big John from The Green Mile, Lennie from Of Mice and Men, and a few shades of Charlie from Flowers for Algernon.  Ros......more

Goodreads review by Kasa

Having recently read Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood's contribution to the Hogarth contemporary takes on Shakespearean plays, I was somewhat reluctant to read this, however it is an entirely different approach to The Tempest. The titles refer to characters based on Caliban in the original and his relation......more

This glorious little book is the retelling of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest but you needn’t have read the play to understand the book or be touched by its beauty. Set in the mythical Belle Coeur County up alongside the Canadian border, independent orphan Rose becomes a pregnant teen and gives birth......more