Prep : a novel / Curtis Sittenfeld.
Sittenfeld, Curtis.
2005
PS3619.I94 P74 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Prep : a novel / Curtis Sittenfeld.
Author Sittenfeld, Curtis.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 1400062314
Imprint New York : Random House, c2005.
Language English
Description 406 p. ; 25 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers 9781400062317
Call Number PS3619.I94 P74 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.6
Summary 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.
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