First, he loses his father in a bizarre work-related accident involving an exploding truck tire, and then, less than a month later, he discovers his best friend, Billy Bartholomew dead under a fallen slab of stone. The summer before his first year of high school in Bear Creek, Idaho, Eddie Proffit suffers two great tragedies. The novel is notable for Crutcher's unusual choice to include himself as a character within the story his literary cameo comes at a pivotal point in the plot, which involves his defending the right of adolescents to read contentious fiction. Aside from its story-within-a-story structure, The Sledding Hill is in many ways a traditional coming of age tale: its protagonist is faced with a significant obstacle to his psychological development which he overcomes, and in the process, ensuring a place in his community. After his death, Billy, continuing to feel an obligation to Eddie, decides to help him deal with the aftermath of the deaths. The story is told by his deceased best friend, Billy Bartholomew. The Sledding Hill (2005), a young adult novel by Chris Crutcher, follows protagonist Eddie Proffit as he struggles to cope with the sudden loss of both his father and his best friend to freakish accidents within a few weeks of one another.
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