TY  - BOOK
N2  - In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won identity within the community is shattered. Lee's experiences, complicated relationships with teachers, intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
AB  - In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won identity within the community is shattered. Lee's experiences, complicated relationships with teachers, intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
T1  - Prep :a novel /
DA  - c2005.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Sittenfeld, Curtis.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - PS3619.I94
CN  - PS3619.I94
PB  - Random House,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2005.
ID  - 304723
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Preparatory school students
KW  - Self-destructive behavior
SN  - 1400062314
TI  - Prep :a novel /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/2004046858.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004046858.html
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004046858-s.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/2004046858.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004046858.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004046858-s.html
ER  -