Prep (Paperback)
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品牌: Curtis Sittenfeld
基本信息·出版社：Picador
·出版日期：2006年
·ISBN：0330441272
·条形码：9780330441278
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介Curtis Sittenfeld's sparkling debut is set in an American boarding school, a hotbed of privilege, ambition and neurosis, every bit as snobbish and competitive as anything dreamed up on this side of the Atlantic. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts; she leaves behind her affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, her head filled with images from the school's glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls hold lacrosse sticks on pristine athletics fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. As Lee soon learns, Ault is quite unlike anything she has previously experienced, a self-enclosed world populated by jaded teenagers whose expectations, values and social rituals are utterly unfamiliar to her. At first an observer of, then a participant in the hyper-vigilant, intricately demarcated life of the school, Lee eventually finds her own place in the pecking order - until a single act of spontaneous folly shatters her carefully honed identity. "Smart, witty and sensitive...Any girl who's ever felt like an outsider will be drawn to troubled Lee, a scholarship teen at a posh boarding school" - "InStyle". "An addictive portrait of adolescence - "The OC" meets Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" with flashes of "Clueless"" - "Observer". "Sittenfeld writes with confidence, her dialogue rings true...and her observations range from witty to surprisingly funny, sometimes absurd." - "Herald".
作者简介Curtis Sittenfeld was born in 1975. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prep is her first novel; her second novel, The Man of My Dreams, will be published by Picador in 2007.
编辑推荐Daily Express
‘Sittenfeld’s humour and sharp observation deliver a coming-of-age
novel you can relate to.’
Sunday Times
'it is her skittish everygirl act that lends the book its
infectious charm.'
Guardian
'a tour de force of bitter adolescence, class envy, ...solid
friendship and shivery first sex'
The Sunday Timea
highly recommended by trendy American literati..writing is fresh and vivid and the subject is uiversal...extremely enjoyable..--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Guardian
incisive account of an unhappy adolescence..exposes the artificility of a community that fails to compensate for lack of family love--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
London Review of Books
a straightforward, serious, funny book...i liked the book so much.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Independent on Sunday
She is a narrator exquisitely attuned to nuance..Prep, in short, is not a preparatory work but a highly accomplished novel--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
