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More copies of this ISBN:Innocenceby Jane Mendelsohn
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:At the Manhattan private school where Beckett is the new girl, the "beautiful girls" are dying off in suicide pacts. Her boyfriend, Tobey, is attacked in the bathroom of a coffee shop and winds up in a coma. Her widowed father takes up with the pretty school nurse, who, Beckett slowly discovers, is not what she seems. Like Alice down the rabbit hole, Beckett finds herself in an incomprehensible universe, where the line between reality and fantasy is razor thin, and where nobody believes her. As she moves from girl to woman, Beckett begins to see beauty and love in a sinister, dangerous world whose values of narcissism and youth threaten to claim her. Review:"A surprisingly unique mystery novel. Told in spare, melodramatic vignettes, the book has elements of both an epic poem and a horror-film screenplay." Time Out Review:"Must reading for anybody who thinks teenagers today have gotten bloated with entitlement: a scarlet will-o'-the-wisp fantasy in which adults and adulthood aren't stupid stiffs but agents of unimaginable evil." Kirkus Reviews Review:"The book offers an interesting spin on the traditional coming-of-age story as it keeps the reader wondering." Library Journal Review:"Mendelsohn's novels...are distinguished by their vivid visualizations of mental states and delight in confusing the imagined with the real." Booklist Review:"Fortunately, the mannered, self-dramatizing prose in which Mendelsohn specializes turns out to be appropriate for the mannered, self-dramatizing heroine of her new book." New York Times Book Review Synopsis:In an electrifying follow-up to the bestselling I Was Amelia Earhart, Mendelsohn's Innocence is a modern gothic coming-of-age story, a devastating x-ray of American culture and a piercing exploration of a teenage girl growing up in New York City. About the AuthorMs. Mendelsohn is married and lives in New York with her husband, filmmaker Nick Davis. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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