Though the Newbery Medal-winning book’s film rights were purchased by Jeff Bridges almost two decades ago, it’s taken all of these years to make it to the screen. Lowry, a chipper 77, crossed the river from Cambridge to Boston last week to talk about her young adult novel “The Giver,” a coming-of-age tale set in a dystopian future (written in 1993, well before the fad of “The Hunger Games,” etc.). She read and loved “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” when she was 10, and fell under the spell of “The Catcher in the Rye” not long after. The longtime Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident recalls spending her childhood as a voracious reader of all kinds of books, especially adult books that had young protagonists. It’s no surprise that Lois Lowry is such a prolific writer.
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