Big Mouth & Ugly Girl - Rilegato

Oates, Joyce Carol

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ISBN 10: 0066237580 ISBN 13: 9780066237589

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2002

Riassunto

Having been the only one to hear Matt Donaghy threaten to blow up the school, Ursula Riggs, a loner and outsider at Rocky River High School, is left on her own to figure out what needs to be done with the statement she has heard. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Compelling. Honest and penetrating.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Believable, full-blooded characters. Convincing high-school back-drop.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“A thought-provoking, character-driven drama.” (ALA Booklist (starred review))

“A fast-moving, timely, compelling story.” (School Library Journal)

“A divinely readable novel, one of the finest and most provocative in any genre of late.” (Ruminator Review)

“A superb story bursting with themes relevant to high school life today.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Middle and high school kids will find a lot rings true in “Big Mouth and Ugly Girl.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Gripping.” (Washington Post)

“Should bring Oates a whole new generation of fans.” (Denver Rocky Mountain News)

L'autore:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0066237580
• ISBN 13: 9780066237589
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 266