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FROM: "K. Smith" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/8/04, 8:38 PM

Hello all, I've a bit of an unusual request here. I am
trying to find fiction that features a main character
with cleft palate and/or cleft lip. The only one I've
been able to find is _Quest for a Maid_ by Frances May
Hendry. Can anyone suggest anything else? Thank you
all for your time.

Kristin Smith

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FROM: Joyce Saricks <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 2/8/04, 9:06 PM

There's Precious Bane by Mary Webb, first published in the 1920s.

Joyce Saricks

"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and
entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
Marshall McLuhan

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/8/04, 9:29 PM

Children's picture book featuring a cleft lip child/angel:
Rosey: The Imperfect Angel by Sandra L. Peckinpah and Trisha Moore
(Illustrator), 1993

YA fiction:
Up Molasses Mountain by Julie Baker, 2002 "When union members arrive
to organize their West Virginia coal mining town, fourteen-year-old
Clarence Henderson, shunned for his cleft lip, and his neighbor
Elizabeth Braxton narrate the changes in their own lives and in the
lives of everyone in their community."

Adult fiction:
Courting Trouble by Lisa Scottoline: "Centers on the all-woman
Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates, led by Benedetta
(Bennie) Rosato. Scottoline's previous novels revolved around Rosato and
her two associates, but this one introduces a new character, Anne
Murphy, fresh out of law school. She's brainy, beautiful, and nervy, and
oh yes, she had a cleft palate as a child, doesn't speak to her mother,
and is being pursued cross-country by a stalker.... "

Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, and the movie based on it, Manhunter: The
character of Dollarhyde has scars of a procedure to fix a harelip and
cleft palate.

~ Molly Wms.

--
Molly Williams, Volunteer Web-Tender,
Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
... WPL Weblog: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

K. Smith wrote:

>Hello all, I've a bit of an unusual request here. I am
>trying to find fiction that features a main character
>with cleft palate and/or cleft lip. The only one I've
>been able to find is _Quest for a Maid_ by Frances May
>Hendry. Can anyone suggest anything else? Thank you
>all for your time.
>
>Kristin Smith
>
>__________________________________
>
>

FROM: "Joy Tofteland" <[removed]@ankeny.k12.ia.us>
REC'D: 2/9/04, 8:51 AM

Hassan in the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini has a hair lip. Although not
the main character, he is significant to the story and the harelip element
returns at the end of the story.

Joy Tofteland
Reference/ Technical Resources Librarian
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA

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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of K. Smith
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 8:35 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Cleft palate/lip fiction

Hello all, I've a bit of an unusual request here. I am
trying to find fiction that features a main character
with cleft palate and/or cleft lip. The only one I've
been able to find is _Quest for a Maid_ by Frances May
Hendry. Can anyone suggest anything else? Thank you
all for your time.

Kristin Smith

__________________________________
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FROM: "Dorothy Pawlowski" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 2/9/04, 9:19 AM

In the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, one of the characters, Hassan, has a
harelip.

Dorothy Pawlowski
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: (203)438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]
On Behalf Of K. Smith
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 9:35 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Cleft palate/lip fiction

Hello all, I've a bit of an unusual request here. I am
trying to find fiction that features a main character
with cleft palate and/or cleft lip. The only one I've
been able to find is _Quest for a Maid_ by Frances May
Hendry. Can anyone suggest anything else? Thank you
all for your time.

Kristin Smith

__________________________________
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FROM: celmore <[removed]@westga.edu>
REC'D: 2/9/04, 10:28 AM

The Mulberry Tree
Jude Deveraux

Male character had/has cleft lip that affected his whole life
Carole Elmore

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>Hello all, I've a bit of an unusual request here. I am
>trying to find fiction that features a main character
>with cleft palate and/or cleft lip. The only one I've
>been able to find is _Quest for a Maid_ by Frances May
>Hendry. Can anyone suggest anything else? Thank you
>all for your time.
>
>Kristin Smith
>
>__________________________________
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FROM: Andrew Smith <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 2/9/04, 10:50 AM

The protagonist in JM Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K has a harelip.

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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, K. Smith wrote:

> Hello all, I've a bit of an unusual request here. I am
> trying to find fiction that features a main character
> with cleft palate and/or cleft lip. The only one I've
> been able to find is _Quest for a Maid_ by Frances May
> Hendry. Can anyone suggest anything else? Thank you
> all for your time.
>
> Kristin Smith
>
> __________________________________
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FROM: [removed]@talk21.com
REC'D: 2/10/04, 8:43 AM

In Graham Greene's novel "A gun for sale", the central character, has a cleft lip. I have been told that during the early chapters it shows how it affects his character. It was felt that Greene uses it rather negatively!

Lois
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/12/04, 11:03 AM

At 06:34 PM 2/8/04 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello all, I've a bit of an unusual request here. I am
>trying to find fiction that features a main character
>with cleft palate and/or cleft lip. The only one I've
>been able to find is _Quest for a Maid_ by Frances May
>Hendry. Can anyone suggest anything else? Thank you
>all for your time.
>
>Kristin Smith

Not quite a "main" character, but one of the half-dozen or
so main characters: one of the regulars in Joe Gores' DKA
Associates crime/detective series is a repo man with a
cleft palate. He's hired about three books into the
series--I think in 32 PINK CADILLACS, but could be wrong.
And I can't recall his name.

Even less a main character: one of Penrod's kid associates
in Booth Tarkington's books (PENROD; PENROD AND SAM; PENROD
JASHBER) is a young African American boy, one of identical
twins named (sigh) "Herman and Vermin." They can be told
apart only because one has a harelip and the other does not.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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