The Society of S - Brossura

Hubbard, Susan

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ISBN 10: 141653458X ISBN 13: 9781416534587

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2008

Riassunto

Thirteen-year-old, half-vampire Ariella Montero struggles with the daily realities of her condition while harboring an unflinching desire to unravel the darkest secrets of vampire nature, a longing that leads her to learn about the gentle, wise, and even vegetarian lifestyles of vampires. A first novel. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Susan Hubbard's stories are about the accidents of desire, and the accidents that desire provokes.... Mysterious, comic, and menacing, they combine simplicity and complexity to create an effect of great elegance and power."

-- Charles Baxter

"Susan Hubbard writes with icy precision and a kind of close-focus attention to detail that is too little in evidence these days. In her work, she always gets it right.... Marvelous."

-- Frederick Barthelme

"Equally literate and adventurous, The Society of S discloses its delectable secrets slowly. Susan Hubbard has taken a much-beloved trope and created a coming-of-age novel with real bite."

-- Stewart O'Nan

"What happens when a thirteen-year-old girl, living in the ordinary world we all know, discovers she's a vampire? For Ariella Montero, the star of this dark and imaginative novel, it's a revelation that's both illuminating and unsettling, but also one that leads ultimately to the beginnings of self-knowledge. A triumph of modern gothic storytelling, The Society of S is the most unusual coming of age story you¹ll ever read."

-- Carolyn Parkhust, author of Lost and Found and The Dogs of Babel

L'autore:

Susan Hubbard is the author of The Society of S and The Year of Disappearances, as well as two short story collections, Walking on Ice and Blue Money, for which she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She teaches at the University of Central Florida and lives with her husband in Orlando and Cape Canaveral. 

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 141653458X
• ISBN 13: 9781416534587
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304