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Park’s Quest is a 1988 children's novel written by American novelist Katherine Paterson. Plot summary. Park's full name is Parkington "Park" Waddell Broughton V. He knows he has ancestors who have distinguished themselves and the name he shares with four generations of them.
- Katherine Paterson
- 1988
Jan 1, 1988 · Imagining himself as an Arthurian knight on a quest, Park is determined to make a good impression on his grandfather, but he soon realizes that the elderly man is unwell, and that his uncle, Frank, is married to a Vietnamese woman, a member of the very race Park blames for his father's death.
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Like the bold knights in his fantasies, eleven-year-old Park is on a quest: He wants to learn about his father, who died in Vietnam. Not only has he no memory of his father, his mother won’t discuss him.
When Park's search finally takes him to his gradfather's farm in rural Virginia, he meets obstacles beyond his imagining. Instead of being welcomed as the long lost...
In a multilayered novel filled with themes of reconciliation and renewal, the two-time Newbery winner draws parallels between a boy's quest for the family of his father, killed in Vietnam, and the Arthurian legends.
- Kirkus Reviews
Park's Quest. Katherine Paterson. Puffin Books, 1989 - Juvenile Fiction - 148 pages. Paterson offers her young readers a glimpse of the Vietnam War from what might be ...
Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the...
