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A sparkling coming-of-age novel that has sold over 300,000 copies in Holland, in which the inhabitants of a sleepy rural town are awakened by the arrival of a kinetic young visionary, Joe Speedboat.
After a farming accident plunges him into a coma for six months, Frankie Hermans wakes up to discover that he's paralyzed and mute. Bound to a wheelchair, Frankie struggles to adjust to a life where he must rely on others to complete even the simplest tasks. The only body part he can control is his right arm, which he uses obsessively to record the details of daily life in his town.
But when he meets Joe—a boy who blazed into town like a meteor while Frankie slept—everything changes. Joe is a centrifugal force, both magician and daredevil, and he alone sees potential strength in Frankie's handicaps. With Joe's help, Frankie's arm will be used for more that just writing: as a champion arm-wrestler, Frankie will be powerful enough to win back his friends, and maybe even woo P. J., the girl who has them all in a tailspin.
Alive with the profundities of adolescence, Joe Speedboat is the supersonic story of an unlikely alliance and a lightning-quick dash to
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David Williams
reviewed Joe Speedboat on June 27, 2017
Joe Speedboat
Normally I'm not such a great fan of 'boys books', like 'Tom Sawyer', 'Kees de Jongen' or even 'Le Grand Meaulnes', but I confess that I appreciated this one. Wieringa brings so much more than a funny coming of age-story. He draws a rather marginal, Dutch community (a small catholic village, on a river, fascist past included), but he also opens up to the wide world (Papa Africa). The great hero of the story, Joe Speedboot, keeps his mystery till the end; his appeal is that he seems to dwell in another dimension and so transcends his relatively marginal origin. Fortunately Wieringa did not make this story telling Fransje Hermans into a pitiful character; at the end Fransje knows very well how poor things are for him. And finally, the language and style of this book is constantly surprising and very imaginative; Wieringa really is a "word-artist". I only have some reservations about the female characters in this book: as in other 'boys' books they get a rather negative image.
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