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Bursting with bittersweet nostalgia, a funny, poignant, perfectly voiced debut that captures what its like to be a teenage girl--full of brilliantly-rendered awkwardness and the hilarious minor horrors of a privileged adolescence, The Brittanys shimmers with the everyday incandescence of youth (Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light). Theyre not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows their name(s). The Brittanys.Brittany Rosenberg: drives her golf cart around her subdivision to meet boys.Brittany Gottlieb: insists you cant lose your virginity if you havent gotten your period. (She heard it somewhere!)Brittany Tomassi: is from New York.Brittany Jensen: once threw her tampon into a strangers swimming pool. A brash, bold, unapologetic tomboy. And the greatest person in the whole wide world.At least as far as the fifth Brittany--our narrator--is concerned. Even within their friend group, she and Jensen are a duo: with their matching JanSport backpacks, Tiffany chokers, and Victorias Secret push-up bras, they are unstoppable. And now that theyre finally growing up, theyre going to do everything: dye their hair, attend no-parent parties, try pot . . . maybe even lose their virginities. 2004 is totally going to be their year!Except Jensens interests may be diverging from her friends. And within our narrators own family--in the lives of her exhausted mother and beloved, genius older brother--life-changing events may be taking shape. Events that only years later, looking back, she has the perspective to see. A VINTAGE ORIGINALAbout author(s):BRITTANY ACKERMANs debut essay collection, The Perpetual Motion Machine, was the winner of Red Hen Presss Nonfiction Award. She has a creative writing MFA from Florida Atlantic University, and has attended the Writing by Writers Methow Valley Workshop and the Mont Blanc Workshop in Chamonix, France, as well as a residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. The Brittanys is her first novel.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Vintage
