The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls - Brossura

DiSclafani, Anton

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755395182 ISBN 13: 9780755395187

Casa editrice: Headline, 2013

Riassunto

Perfect for fans of The Great Gatsby, Tigers in Red Weather, and Curtis Sittenfield... 1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood. Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess; where young women are indoctrinated in the importance of 'female education' yet expected to be married by twenty-one; a world so rarified as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots...

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Recensione:

'I fell completely under the spell of Anton DiSclafani's amazing first novel and was gripped by its lush and dreamy evocations of Southern decorum, family secrets, and boarding school rituals. DiSclafani is wildly talented, and this is a sexy, suspenseful, gorgeously written book' (Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE)

'DiSclafani's pitch-perfect details of time and place effortlessly drew me into this fantastic novel's authentic and alluring world' (Laura Moriarty, author of THE CHAPERONE)

'The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is so sexy, smart, and vividly drawn that I was surprised to remember that this novel is Anton DiSclafani's first. With such a big-hearted and atmospheric book, Ms. DiSclafani's talents should be celebrated far and wide' (Lauren Groff, author of ARCADIA)

A fierce and tender portrait of a young woman caught amidst the converging crises of her family, her country, and her own complicated desires... It's a beautiful novel (Aryn Kyle, author of THE GOD OF ANIMALS)

'A clever and compelling coming-of-age novel' (Glamour Magazine)

Descrizione del libro:

A beautiful, literary commercial novel in the vein of PREP

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• Editore: Headline
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0755395182
• ISBN 13: 9780755395187
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 392