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005 200904162350.0
008 051215s2005    nyu           000 1 eng  
035    $a (OCoLC)62623886
040    $a SFC $c SFC $d SILO $d NIU $d SILO
100 1  $a Sittenfeld, Curtis.
245 1  $a Prep : $b a novel / $c Curtis Sittenfeld.
250    $a 1st ed.
260    $a New York : $b Random House, $c c2005.
300    $a 420 p. ; $c 20 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
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