The Mind's Eye
  • Published:
    Sep-1999
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    112
  • Age Level:
    12-17
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Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal cord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world, the only resource they have left is their imagination.

As Elva and Courtney go on a fantasy trip to Italy (accompanied by Elva's long dead husband and guided by a 1910 travel book), Elva shows Courtney a new way to envision love. But to accept it, and the gift of the imagination, Courtney must make the trip her own--even if she destroys the art Elva holds most dear.

Written entirely in dialogue, The Mind's Eye can be performed as reader's theater, but it is a fully satisfying novel. In this extraordinarily innovative, profound, and yet readable book Paul Fleischman makes us all feel what a powerful--and dangerous--tool the imagination can be.
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    •  
    • Sep-1999
    • Henry Holt
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0805096744
    • ISBN13: 9780805096743
    •  
    • Mar-2001
    • Random House
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0440229014
    • ISBN13: 9780440229018
    •  
    • Sep-1999
    • Henry Holt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0805063145
    • ISBN13: 9780805063141
    •  
    • Mar-2001
    • Sagebrush
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0613340132
    • ISBN13: 9780613340137
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Dec-2013
    • Henry Holt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 146686026X
    • ISBN13: 9781466860261



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