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Innocence
by Jane Mendelsohn
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9781573221641 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher 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 Author
Ms. Mendelsohn is married and lives in New York with her husband, filmmaker Nick Davis.
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eijay14, May 26, 2008 (view all comments by eijay14)
This book is a page-turner... very brilliant work by Jane Mendelsohn. It was able to capture the confusion and terror of teenage life in a way that no writer has ever done. Truly an exceptional work,it will leave you hanging in a somehow reflective and satisfied way.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9781573221641
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Horror
- Subject:
- Stepmothers
- Subject:
- Vampires
- Subject:
- Horror tales
- Subject:
- Teenage girls
- Subject:
- General Fiction
- Series Volume:
- 49
- Publication Date:
- 20000828
- Binding:
- Hardback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 8.38x5.67x.87 in. .82 lbs.
