Tunes for Bears to Dance to

by Robert Cormier Narrated by George Guidall

Overview

Champaign and Zyair have been together for five years, and they're feeling the need to rekindle the erotic spark between them. When they decide to invite a third person into their bedroom, neither one of them realizes how much their lives will change. What starts out as one night of experimentation becomes an obsession for Champaign, who decides she wants to experience that kind of passion again and again. Meanwhile, her friend Alexis is tired of being used, abused, and treated as an afterthought, Alexis decides to explore her wild side. She plans to put aside her beliefs of how a lady should behave and live life according to her pleasures. If it pleases her, she will say it and do it. She'll be the man in all three of her relationships from this day forward. One man is in her life for materialistic reasons, the other for sexual exploration, and the third is her eye candy. Before she knows it, the drama begins. She is stalked, arrested, and emotionally drained. Alexis has started a journey that she knows must end; however, she's become addicted to the excitement of it all and can't seem to stop.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Numb and lonely after his brother's death, Henry is befriended by a bigoted new employer, who attempts to involve the boy in an act of cruelty against a Holocaust survivor. Ages 12-up. (May)

School Library Journal

Gr 6-9-- This brief, compelling book conveys the devastating effects of evil, whether its form is as huge and incomprehensible as the Holocaust, or as small and personal as another human being. Henry, a young teenager, is lucky to be employed. Since his brother's re cent death, his father is paralyzed by depres sion; his mother works long hours to support the family. It's the early 1950s, and, with the return of the servicemen, housing and jobs are scarce. Unfortunately, Henry's boss is a bigot ed, abusive individual whose hatred of others is so consuming that he intentionally sets out to corrupt the boy's goodness. He forces Henry to commit an ugly, violent act and betray a friendship with an elderly neighbor who has lost his home and family to the Nazis. As part of his rehabilitative therapy, Mr. Levine loving ly carves his vanished village and its population out of wood. The scenes in which he is ``home'' again demonstrate the Holocaust's horror in a deeply moving manner, and Cormier wrench ingly personalizes the man's grief. Tunes for Bears to Dance To , more a parable than a fully realized novel, is sharp, short, and to the point. The characters are fairly one-dimensional and their circumstances are portrayed as black or white. Why they are ``good'' or ``evil'' is not explained, and little room is left for shades of gray. They simply embody the concepts Cor mier is exploring. This book has limitations, but it will not be easily forgotten. It will make fascinating material for group discussion. -- Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, County of Henrico Public Library, Richmond, VA

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170759187
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	05/31/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

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