By the Shore - Softcover

Craze, Galaxy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224059890 ISBN 13: 9780224059893

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Twelve is a dreadful age for almost any girl, with its nonstop insecurity and humiliation. But May, the heroine of Galaxy Craze's By the Shore, seems to suffer considerably more than her share of unhappiness. Ignored by the popular clique at school, dressed by her mother in retro-hippie fashions that are anything but cool, she's a virtual poster child for pre-teen angst. And if adolescence weren't enough of a burden, May must also contend with a big dose of familial angst. Her mother, Lucy, runs a none-too-successful guesthouse on the English coast. Young and single, she spends more time gossiping and party hopping than tending to May and brother Eden. This distracted maternal style has, alas, exposed our heroine to machinations of grown-up life, which she tracks with fascination and horror. Her single remaining pocket of naiveté involves her estranged father, whose return she eagerly anticipates--even after an unassuming writer begins to pay court to her swinging mom. But this dream, too, is crushed when the genuine item shows up: This is what happens to hope: it gets smaller and smaller. By the Shore does contain some of the typical properties of a coming-of-age drama. But Craze, a first-time novelist and actress, writes with acute insight and sympathy, and she understands one of the great consolations of adolescence: that even the tiniest kernel of hope can be enough to generate almost boundless happiness.--Brangien Davis

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Reseña del editor

May lives by the shore in a fomer girl's school that her mother has turned into a guest house. May is twelve and she and her mother and brother have come from London to live by the sea. May observes the adults and their complicated games with an eye unmisted by sentimentality, and struggles to find solid ground for herself. In this dazzling first novel Galaxy Craze has created a character as convincing as Paddy Clarke, a milieu as finely drawn as that of Hideous Kinky.

Biografía del autor

Galaxy Craze was born in London in 1970 and moved to America with her mother at the age of ten.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0224059890
• ISBN 13: 9780224059893
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240