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Wild Boy
Wild Boy
Author: Jill Dawson
In 18th-century France, a child is captured in the forests near Aveyron where he seems to have been living wild for seven years. Now 12 years old, the Wild Boy is put on public display as a freak, and finally handed over to the ambitious, emotionally repressed Doctor Itard, who is charged with educating the boy, whom he names Victor, and trying ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780340822975
ISBN-10: 034082297X
Publication Date: 7/5/2004
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Sceptre
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Well, this was an interesting fictionalization of Victor of Aveyron's story, but truly it was not great. The shifts of perspective were unwieldy and took some getting used to. Victor came across as an autistic child very clearly, which was a more modern take on this wild child myth. It was not a bad book, and if some minor changes were made to the structure and to clarify the P.O.V. it would be greatly improved.
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