Thirteen Ways to Be 13

摘要

"Blind boars of wind crashed through the nervy woods," reports Jason Taylor, frightened schoolboy, as he heads toward the darker reaches of the trees, and of his imagination, in a grisly English town in 1982. "Listening's reading," he notes elsewhere, "if you. close your eyes." The sounds and tastes, the trembling feelings of his world course through the wide-awake boy like channeled spirits. Yet what makes the pungent spray of syllables heartrending is the fact that Jason is a stammerer and has to avoid certain letters even when reading aloud in class.