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Author:

Sittenfeld, Curtis.

Title:

Prep : a novel / Curtis Sittenfeld.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

406 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Teenage girls--Fiction.
Preparatory school students--Fiction.
Self-destructive behavior--Fiction.
Massachusetts--Fiction.
Indiana--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Bildungsromans.

Contents:

Thieves -- All school rules are in effect -- Assassin -- Cipher -- Parents' weekend -- Townie -- Spring-cleaning -- Kissing and kissing.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781400062317 (acid-free paper)
1400062314 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55099405

LCCN:

2004046858

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