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In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-ups skate to scratchy phonograph records. Then, the year Marsh and his best friend, Willy, are twelve, Carl appears at the rink, wearing a battered, old leather flight jacket and doing a strange dance that is both beautiful and disturbing to watch.
It is Marsh and Willy who discover the terrible secret behind Carl's dance, a secret that threatens to destroy him. But a small miracle occurs, and Carl's dance becomes a fragile and tentative expression of hope and the healing power of love.
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"In the summer, in McKinley, Minnesota, when you are twelve there is so much to do that almost none of it gets done except fishing."
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May 6, 2020 | Edited by Lisa | Added new cover |
May 6, 2020 | Edited by lisaBot | moving edition(s) to primary work |
October 8, 2017 | Edited by MARC Bot | merge duplicate works of 'Dancing Carl' |
May 18, 2012 | Edited by Ben Companjen | merge authors |
April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |