The Fell is an indie coming of age novel written by Robert Jenkins and. Stream of conscious is right up some reader's alleys, and way too rocky a road for others. The Fell: shortlisted for NZ Book Lovers Award: best fiction 2020: An unexpected. The thing with this sort of style of narrative though is personal preference. On September 13, 1978, Robert Paul Jenkins, appellant, reached a plea bargain agreement with a prosecuting attorney of Dallas County concerning the. There's some criminal aspects as well to many of the individual boys behaviour and stories, although this is not crime fiction as you would normally expect it. When his family implodes, this young boy is sent to a remote, spartan boys' school normally reserved for kids classed as difficult, where discipline is harsh and confrontational.įrom there the story shifts to one of survival, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see comparisons drawn with Lord of the Flies, there's something in the way these boys behave that had real echoes there, although there are also touches of humour and some softness, even redemption. The blurb will also give you a clear picture of the plot of the book, but not what happens after his sister's arrest - starting out for shoplifting but getting dramatically worse when she lashes out and wounds a policeman.

Carter played lead roles in the television series Surface (200506) and Viva Laughlin (2007), and guest starred in episodes of CSI: Miami, House, CSI: NY, Without a Trace, The Bernie Mac Show, and Unfabulous. In our boy's case, his colorful family had suddenly fallen apart and he was whisked by social services to this isolated outpost where the inmates do indeed seem to be running the asylum. He currently portrays Robert in After We Fell, the third installment of the After film series. THE FELL I can best describe as a stream of conscious coming of age novel that's light on punctuation, and big on the angst, challenge and nail-biting heightened reality of being a teenage boy. 'The Fell' is Feallan House, a residential school for boys with troubled backgrounds. This is one of those books that the blurb will give you a very good feel for the style (and there is a lot of style here) of story-telling deployed.

The Fell by Robert Jenkins