The Patterns of Paper Monsters: A Novel - Softcover

Rathbone, Emma

 
9780316077507: The Patterns of Paper Monsters: A Novel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 031607750X ISBN 13: 9780316077507
Verlag: Back Bay Books, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Jacob Higgins's teenage rage rarely simmers below the surface for long. He despises his negligent mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, Refrigerator Man, and he's indifferent to school and his friends -- though a little less casual about girls and marijuana. His antics have landed him in a North Virginia detention center, where nihilism, freedom, and redemption all take on unexpected guises. In a voice filled with confusion, yearning, and sardonic humor, Jacob narrates his improbably sweet romance with Andrea, an inmate with whom he shares rare glances, melodramatic conversation, and waxy cookies at rigidly chaperoned "socials." But when David, a mysterious, conniving adolescent, handpicks him to assist in a plot to bring about the center's demise, Jacob has to weigh the frail new optimism of his relationship with Andrea against the allure of destruction, rebellion, and escape.

In her pitch-perfect debut, Emma Rathbone adroitly captures the drama, both comic and deadly serious, of growing up.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Emma Rathbone is a graduate of New York University and the MFA Fiction Program at the University of Virginia. She currently lives in Charlottesville.

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Verlag
Back Bay Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
031607750X
ISBN 13 
9780316077507
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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