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by Rosemary Sutcliff (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; Reissue edition (3 July 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192755579
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192755575
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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An epic story of Roman Britain by one of the most renowned writers of historical fiction for children

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Rescued as a baby from a shipwrecked Roman galley, Beric is raised in a British tribe but is never fully accepted by them. When disaster and bad times come to the clan, they believe it is down to Beric - that he has brought bad luck and misfortune to them - and they cast him out. Left alone without family or friends, Beric is sold into slavery in Rome and then condemned to a life on the rowing-bench of a Roman galley. With danger and death all around him, Beric must free himself and try and build a new life.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, 23 Mar 2002
This review is from: Outcast (Oxford children's modern classics) (Paperback)
This is a super book, I've loved it for years. I enjoyed it immensely as a kid and it still moves me deeply today. Sutcliffe has a good "feel" for the era, not that I know much about it, but it appears to be authentic, and she treats it with a sympathetic hand. Give this to your children! Then enjoy it yourself as well!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rosemary Sutcliff has changed history for me!, 10 April 2006
By Angela (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Outcast (Oxford children's modern classics) (Paperback)
I had (somewhat naively, I admit) dismissed history as boring after my teachers contrived to bury all the great stories under mounds of pointless busywork and aimless projects. Rosemary Sutcliff's novels have changed all that, and left me with lots of enthusiasm for new learning. Sutcliff worked hard to make her novels as historically accurate as possible, and she brings the ancient world to life for me. 'Outcast' is one of the saddest and harshest of her novels set in Roman England - it includes some very brutal scenes, eg of galley slaves being beaten and dying at the oar, and being thrown overboard. Darker than the Eagle of the Ninth series, I think. I wouldn't be happy for my children to read it until they were around 11 or over, but this book makes a great read for adults too; I'd rate it up there with I, Claudius (less scholarly and less dry) and way, way above Lindsay Davis's stuff.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Life can be hard!, 25 May 2007
By Alexa (Midlothian United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Outcast (Oxford children's modern classics) (Paperback)
I must first say that I have always rated Rosemary Sutcliff *extremely* highly as an author; I loved her books when I was younger, and they are still worth re-reading now. She has a high standard of historical accuracy, not only in the material facts of Roman culture, but in the attitudes of her charaters - they are people of *their* time, not ours. Yet they never seem remote, they are alive, and real, and one cares about their fate.

Beric stands in the usual tradition of Sutcliff's protagonists, who are always crippled either physically or emotionally. Perhaps that is the strength of her novels, which take the theme of the outsider finding a place for himself in a harsh world. Sutcliff's own situation, progressively finding herself increasingly crippled by Still's disease, and isolated in an era where disability was considered something shameful, may inform her creation of her heroes (for details of this author's life, read "Blue Remembered Hills"). Certainly, she, and we, have immense sympathy for her 'outsiders'.

However, this is one of Sutcliff's grimmest tales. The sheer unrimitting onslaught of adversity that she throws at Beric can seem overwhelming, and for this reason I would not recommend this story to younger children. And does it have a happy ending? Only by the standard of what has gone before - Beric finds a solution to his feelings of rootlessness, but he was still probably at his happiest in chapter 1! (Sutcliff does not deal in trite endings - no fortuitous denouements here! - her character's problems are real, not the result of misunderstandings or imaginings.)

So why only 4 stars? Probably I am being harsh, and comparing Sutcliff to her own high standard. But the tone here is uniformly bleak, and unfortunately her realism in human reactions here is not matched by her usual standards of historical accuracy: she perpetuates the myth that Roman galleys were rowed by convicts or slaves (whilst incidentally providing a very good portrayal of life (and death) aboard a 16th century Mediterranean galley - which were powered by convicts and slaves!)

So, a very good read, and not to be missed - but for Sutcliff at the peak of her powers, try "The Lantern Bearers" or "Mark of the Horse Lord".
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