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One night her sister goes crazyOne night her world falls apart
It happens just like that, in the blink of an eye. An older sister has a mental breakdown and has to be hospitalized. A younger sister is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief and friends who turn their backs on her. But worst of all is the loss of her big sister, her confidante, her best friend.
In the tradition of The Bell Jar, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, comes this haunting first book, inspired by the true story of the author's life. It's an intense and brutally honest story, told in a succession of powerful poems that take us into the cyclone of the narrator's emotions: grief, anger, guilt, resentment, horror, and ultimately, acceptance
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Recensione
“The poems have a cumulative emotional power.” (ALA Booklist (starred review))
“This debut novel shows the capacity of poetry to record the personal and translate it into the universal.” (Chicago Tribune on Lucy Sullivan)
“Stop Pretending is a tour de force debut. It celebrates truth-telling, and has a purity and passion that speaks to the heart.” (Boston Globe)
“Unpretentious. Accessible. Deeply felt.” (School Library Journal)
“The poems take on life and movement, the individual frames of a movie that in the unspooling become animated, telling a compelling tale.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Intense...Blank verse is perfect for a story with such heightened emotion.” (Amazon.com)
“Sensitively written.” (The Horn Book)
“Beautiful and disturbing.” (barnesandnoble.com)
“Heartfelt.” (KLIATT, starred review)
L'autore
As a teenager Sonya Sones spent hours pouring her private thoughts and feelings into journals. Her passion for writing, drawing, and photography led her to begin making animated films when she was seventeen. She studied filmmaking in college, and went on to teach animation, make films for public television, and edit movies in Hollywood. She lives with her husband and two children near the beach in California. Stop Pretending is her first book.
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- EditoreHarperCollins
- Data di pubblicazione1999
- ISBN 10 0060283866
- ISBN 13 9780060283865
- RilegaturaRilegatura all'americana
- Numero di pagine149
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