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Spotlight and Review: Pure Trash – The Story by Bette A. Stevens

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Another 5-STAR Review for PURE TRASH! My thanks to Amelia Curzon at Carte Blanche for reading it and taking the time to write such an insightful review! ~ Bette A. Stevens http://www.4writersandreaders.com

Carte Blanche by Amelia Curzon

Bette Stevens is probably best known for her highly successful children’s book, Amazing Matilda. Now she has dipped her toes into the deep waters of young adult literature with her new book, Pure Trash – The Story.

Having already read Bette’s ‘Amazing Matilda’, I was delighted to be asked to read this one as well. Though aimed at an older audience, it is still written in the same generous and caring tone. Set in the 1950’s, Pure Trash highlights the sense of social injustice doled out when two children are condemned and forever tainted because of their father’s alcoholism and the family’s unmitigated poverty.

PURE TRASH book coverMy Review

Pure Trash is a short story focused on a day in the lives of two young boys, Shawn and Willie Daniels. They are extremely poor, have a drunken father, a long-suffering mother and live in a shack in 1950’s America; located near a small…

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  1. PURE TRASH Author’s to Watch Book Review: “Unlike any story I’ve read…” | 4writersandreaders said:
    10/05/2013 at 8:50 pm

    […] Spotlight and Review: Pure Trash – The Story by Bette A. Stevens (4writersandreaders.com) […]

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  2. nutsfortreasure said:
    09/15/2013 at 12:42 pm

    Great write up I wish you MUCH SUCCESS with your latest!

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  3. Bette A. Stevens said:
    09/14/2013 at 1:58 am

    Thanks so much for the visits and comments!

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  5. Mungai and the Goa Constrictor said:
    09/12/2013 at 8:09 pm

    Thank you for the reblog, Bette. It was a great book, which I shall definitely read again 🙂

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