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02355nam a2200349Ia 4500 001 C3838D466BF311DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20160205010758 008 051024s2005 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780739456729 020 $a 0739456725 040 $a VSB $c VSB $d SILO $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ma $a n-us-ma 100 1 $a Sittenfeld, Curtis. 245 1 $a Prep : $b a novel / $c Curtis Sittenfeld. 260 $a New York : $b Random House, $c c2005. 300 $a 372 p. ; $c 21 cm. 505 0 $a Thieves -- All school rules are in effect -- Assassin -- Cipher -- Parents' weekend -- Townie -- Spring-cleaning -- Kissing and kissing. 520 $a In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won identity within the community is shattered. Lee's experiences, complicated relationships with teachers, intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all. 650 0 $a Teenage girls $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Preparatory school students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-destructive behavior $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Massachusetts $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Indiana $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcsh 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 gsafd 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/2004046858.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004046858.html 941 $a 1 952 $l KEPC896 $d 20100914011324.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C3838D466BF311DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b LF@Initiate Another SILO Locator Search