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Help Me, Jacques Cousteau Book
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Help Me Jacques Cousteau presents the life and times of Hazel and her brother Andrew who are born into an extraordinary family of modern-day eccentrics. It is through Hazel's observant but detached eyes that we watch the family's goings-on her unflinching vision informed by the precocious perception that however bad things may be they are only likely to get worse. She watches with bemusement as they go through the rituals of a Christmas dinner that culminates in attending the funeral of a man not one of them knew and of a wedding that ends with the bride storming out. She senses that her mismatched parents narcoleptic and impractical North and prosaic Janey are headed for a rupture but is content to let things unravel in their own ineluctable fashion. Hazel's younger brother Andrew shows signs of following in the family's unconventional footsteps with his addiction to TV his bizarre questions ('If you had to kill your best friend or your parents which would it be?') and his strange inventions like solar-powered curtains.Yet however odd and even slightly menacing the world inhabited by these fully-fleshed characters there is an unnerving familiarity to their dilemmas and discordancies that makes the stories resonate with conviction. This funny and poignant portrait of an offbeat family showcases Adamson's powerful prose which uniquely combines a scientist's attention to detail a comic's delivery and a poet's ear.
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Hazel is only a toddler when she sails back to Canada with her parents to begin a new life. As the boat dips and dives across the ocean and sends her bed crashing against the walls Hazel wakes up to the tragic reality of the world around her. From then on life seems a constant struggle as Hazel juggles with the miseries of childhood while attempting to make sense of the odd bunch of grown-ups around her.
- 1408811464
- 9781408811467
- Gil Adamson
- 17 January 2011
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Paperback (Book)
- 208
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