The Fundamentals of Play - Hardcover

Macy, Caitlin

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ISBN 10: 0375504133 ISBN 13: 9780375504136

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2000

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Book by Macy Caitlin

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Set in trendy Manhattan, this novel follows a group of boarding school friends--men and women--as they extend their adolescence in this glamorous world, and an outsider who desperately wants in. 30,000 first printing.

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as what you wanted, somehow, in this infinitely ironic age. She was the kind of girl about whom other girls used to say, 'All right, so she's thin but,' trying vainly to suss out the appeal. And even now, when her name comes up, and with it the sulky protest it invariably evokes--'She's not that great'--I do not feel compelled to argue in her defense."

Some fiction debuts have remarkably strong stories, some have refreshing new voices, some have perfect cultural timing. The Fundamentals of Play is that literary rarity which has all three.

George Lenhart is, chronically, in love with Kate Goodenow. So is Nick Beale, the working-class son of a Maine lobsterman from the town where Kate spent her childhood summers. So is Chat Wethers, an old-money friend of George's from Dartmouth. And so is Harry Lombardi, a brilliant, startlingly successful, but socially awkward Dartmouth upstart who has been trying to enter this circle for years.

It is George who tells the in

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375504133
• ISBN 13: 9780375504136
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 289