A Ticket to Ride (P.S.) - Softcover

McLain, Paula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061340529 ISBN 13: 9780061340529

Verlag: Ecco Press, 2009

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Críticas:

"Absorbing, tantalizing, and super-heated as an endless summer day."--Michelle Wildgen, author of You're Not You

"[McLain's] writing is gorgeous, and Jamie and Fawn are heartbreakingly real."--Katrina Kittle, author of The Kindness of Strangers

"Filled with mystery and longing, McLain lays bare the raw emotion that guides us all..."--Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

"Assured and ambitious... the complicated bonds of a makeshift family... lyrical precision. A deft and haunting book."--Katharine Noel, author of Halfway House

"Paula McLain has put a poet's ear to the urgency of adolescence...a strong throb of a first novel."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"...poet and memoirist McLain compels as she excavates two tragedies."--Chicago Sun-Times

"...a vivid portrait of the summer of '73...the relationships it expores are timeless...a genuine literary accomplishment."--Dan Chaon, author of You Remind Me of Me

"...[A] beautifully written book...deeply felt and engrossing--an immense pleasure to read."--Leah Stewart, author of The Myth of You and Me

"...a haunting coming-of-age story...sun-dazzled prose that hides a cold, foreboding underbelly...gorgeous writing."--Gillian Flynn, author of Sharp Objects

Reseña del editor:

Mesmerized by her seemingly sophisticated older cousin Fawn, who has been sent to live with Jamie's family after a sex scandal involving a teacher, Jamie agrees to a makeover in order to win Fawn's approval but finds herself torn between her sexually awakened new self and the girl she used to be. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Ecco Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061340529
• ISBN 13: 9780061340529
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272