Kids Gone Rotten
Matthew Bevis: ‘Treasure Island’, 25 October 2012
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by John Sutherland.
Broadview, 261 pp., £10.95, December 2011,978 1 55111 409 5 Show More
by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by John Sutherland.
Broadview, 261 pp., £10.95, December 2011,
Silver: Return to Treasure Island
by Andrew Motion.
Cape, 404 pp., £12.99, March 2012,978 0 224 09119 0 Show More
by Andrew Motion.
Cape, 404 pp., £12.99, March 2012,
“... which side the author’s on when it comes to the morality business. When the unnamed narrator of Sara Levine’s novel Treasure Island!!! reads Stevenson’s book, she is struck primarily by how cramped her own life is compared with ‘the book’s open air’. ‘When had I ever done a foolish, over-bold act? … How can I become the hero of my own ... ”
