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All Souls

by Christine Schutt

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattans Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astras friends try to reconcile the girls suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: the silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will Bliss while the subversive Lisa Van de Ven makes dates with MissWilkes. The world of private schools and privilege in New York City is funny, poignant, and cruel, and at its heart is the stricken Astra Dell, "that pale girl from the senior class, the dancer with all the hair, the red hair, knotted or braided or let to fall to her waist, a fever and she consumed."

National Book Award finalist Christine Schutt has created a wickedly original tale of innocence, daring, and illness.

Review:

Praise for ALL SOULS "[M]asterfully paced... Schutt's writing is sharp as ever, with a keen eye for life's everyday grotesqueries.... Schutt continues to capture the messiness and confusions particular to adolescence, but in All Souls, new terrain refreshes this writer's astringent voice."--TimeOut New York (four stars)

 

"Readers who love language and appreciate description will find All Souls worth reading.... Anyone who wants to read a high school story that's about more than just life as a model/fashionista/mean girl will enjoy this book." — ElleGirl.com

About the Author

CHRISTINE SCHUTT is the author of two short story collectionsA Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer and Nightworkas well as the novel Florida, a 2004 National Book Award finalist. Schutt lives and teaches in New York City.

Table of Contents

Contents

The Girl No One Knows  1

Fa La Lah 53

January 79

Romance 103

Numbers 133

Dance 145

Fools 169

Hives 187

Prizes 201

Acknowledgments 225

Product Details

ISBN:
9780156033381
Author:
Schutt, Christine
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Subject:
Non-Classifiable
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
June 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
223
Dimensions:
8.04x5.24x.59 in. .49 lbs.

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