Does anyone know where I can find book notes on The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard?

Question

I have to make a test over the book and I can't find any notes on it. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

From Booklist
Gr. 6-9. Maynard, whose previous books have been for adults, has mixed success in her first effort for youth, which combines stock elements of middle-grade fiction (science fair aspirations, a school outcast who becomes a friend) with a probing of small-town family upheaval more akin to hard-hitting adult novels such as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) than to most children's fiction.In the first chapter, eighth-grader Nate watches his bleeding father, a failed Montana farmer, stagger across the yard after a botched suicide attempt. Tinkering with a science project (a radiation-detecting cloud chamber) alongside school pariah, Naomi, becomes Nate's bulwark against the pain of his hospitalized father's absence, an incommunicative mother, and a prissy 1950s community that closes ranks against the family. Nate's earnestness and -naivete seem to target a younger audience than the story's tragedy and difficult issues would suggest, a juxtaposition that may prevent the book from finding a broad audience. But a bedrock of emotional authenticity underlies Maynard's storytelling, and the prairie landscape, the "vast open space of nothing but sky overhead," makes a stark, unforgettable impression. Try this with mature middle-school and junior-high readers. Jennifer Mattson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1416926992/ref=dp_proddesc_0/104-8141128-9162361?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

People ask me if The Cloud Chamber was based on a real story. There are two different answers to that one. I do know someone like the character of Nate, in my story, who grew up on a farm and had the terrible experience, when he was thirteen years old, of having his father shoot himself. Like Nate's dad, my friend's father didn't die, but he disappeared from my friend's life for many years, and nobody would talk about what happened. Thirty years after that event, he was still struggling with what that had meant to him, growing up. So I tried to imagine how it might have been different for him if he'd been able to work things out with his family when he was young.
http://www.joycemaynard.com/books-jmaynard/cloud-chamber-essay.shtml?sid=33&pid=506623&agid=9
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There is more info at the Links. It's all I could find on short notice.

Answer 2

i actually do no longer think of so. notwithstanding this is tough to tell - could be bisexual. He does have a son, named Devo H. Keenan (born 1995) who sang backing vocals on a acceptable Circle's thirteenth Step (i theory this became into tremendously cool). The music "Breña" via a acceptable Circle makes use of the middle call of Keenan's former fianceé, mutually as the only "Judith" bears the call of Keenan's mom, and gadget's "H" is the middle call of his son. Keenan, who has defined himself as "fortunately single", became into in a dating as of December 2007, whilst he reported "For the 1st time in my existence, I even have somebody who's looking after me, particularly than any opposite direction around."

Answer 3

sparknotes.com might have some notes about it. you would have to check if the site has that book though.

Answer 4

Try going to www.sparknotes.com and see if it's there. Good luck!