Book · 2024 · Fiction
The Yearling
The Pulitzer prize-winning, classic coming-of-age novel
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And then the yearling and where the red fern grows if you haven't read these two books stop what you're doing cause i'm about to ruin the image of style you're used to you gotta read these books they're so sad but they're so good.
The best things said about it
The book is called the life she wished to live and and the subtitle is a biography of marjerie Kenan Rawlings who of course wrote The Yearling.
Why people recommend it
The Yearling is a classic coming-of-age novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings about a young boy living in the Florida backwoods who adopts an orphaned fawn, only to face heartbreaking realities as he grows up. On The Dr. John Delony Show, Dr. John Delony enthusiastically recommended The Yearling, telling his audience to stop what they were doing and read it alongside Where the Red Fern Grows, noting that while both books are devastatingly sad, they are exceptionally good stories that everyone should experience. Separately, on The Book Review podcast, Dwight Garner mentioned Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's novel while discussing a biographical work titled The Life She Wished to Live, explicitly identifying Rawlings as the talented author who famously wrote The Yearling. These discussions demonstrate the enduring emotional power of Rawlings's masterwork, which continues to resonate deeply with modern readers, podcasters, and cultural critics alike for its stark portrayal of rural life, moral responsibility, and the painful transition from childhood innocence to adulthood.
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Dr John Delony and then the yearling and where the red fern grows if you haven't read these two books stop what you're doi… 1
“and then the yearling and where the red fern grows if you haven't read these two books stop what you're doing cause i'm about to ruin the image of style you're used to you gotta read these books they're so sad but they're so good”
Dwight Garner the book is called the life she wished to live and and the subtitle is a biography of marjerie Kenan Rawlin… 1
“the book is called the life she wished to live and and the subtitle is a biography of marjerie Kenan Rawlings who of course wrote The Yearling”