Snowy Egret
"Hinton's story is a well-crafted tale of a boy's journey into manhood, filled with allegory and the tension that makes us turn pages to learn what happens to our young protagonist." -Fred Shochet, American Book Review , March/April 2005
Orphaned and alone, young Juan Caraveo flees from his cruel master in the lowlands of central Mexico to seek his missing father in the fabled mountains of the west. Fear and necessity drive him into the service of thieves and adventurers, wise men and holy men. A mythic tale, in the picaresque tradition, Juan Caraveo recounts the outrageous and gripping adventures of a peasant youth who, through his wits and determination and the influences of his many masters, reaches a fearless and honest manhood despite
Juan Caraveo , by James Hinton, tells the story of an orphaned cowherd, who in order to save himself from the whip of a cruel master and the taunting of a vicious ranch foreman, known as "The Fear," flees in the night, only to be tracked and followed, first in reality and then in his imagination, by the remorseless, El Miedo. "Fear" subsequently drives young Juan into the protection and employment of numerous other masters: vicious thieves and honest men, men of great courage and men of greed, lazy and hard
Snowy Egret