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HTML:An insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school??s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of??and, ultimately, a participant in??their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she??s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered. Ultimately, Lee??s experiences??complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant??coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland. Praise for Prep ??Curtis Sittenfeld is a young writer with a crazy amount of talent. Her sharp and economical prose reminds us of Joan Didion and Tobias Wolff. Like them, she has a sly and potent wit, which cuts unexpectedly??but often??through the placid surface of her prose. Her voice is strong and clear, her moral compass steady; I??d believe anything she told me.???Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
??Prep??s every sentence rings true. Sittenfeld is a rising star.???Wally Lamb, author of She??s Come Undone<… (mehr)
sweetbug: Moo is also a coming of age novel, but it is set in a Midwestern college town at an ag school (hence the title). More humor and less drama than Prep, but a similar feel.
BookshelfMonstrosity: Although Prep is realistic fiction written for adults and Conversion is a YA mashup of suspense and historical fiction, both books detail the complex social interactions of elite Northeastern prep schools with intense, sometimes gut-wrenching, precision.… (mehr)
Das Buch erzählt von der Stipendiatin Lee, die in einem Elite-Internat alles tut, um ja nicht aufzufallen und dennoch ihren Platz zu finden. Das Buch ist wirklich sehr gut geschrieben, feine Andeutungen und Rückblenden heben es über das bloße chronologische Erzähln hinaus. Auch die detaillierten Beschreibungen sind so gut vorstellbar, dass es oft direkt wehtut. "Das ist also die Wahrheit über Hanni und Nanni", dachte ich mehrfach, so ist also die psychische Verfasseng, wenn man einfach so in einem Internat mitläuft. Die Unsicherheit und Peinlichkeit des Teenageralters hat ja jeder erlebt, daher ist es gut einzuschätzen, wie beachtlich Sittenfelds Leistung ist, dies präzise und an prägnanten Punkten darzustellen. Trotzdem glaube ich nicht, dass Lee ihre Deckung gerade bei der Journalistin heruntergelassen hätte. Das erscheint mir unwahrscheinlich. Und die Eltern taten mir einfach leid. ( )
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For my parents, Paul and Betsy Sittenfeld; my sisters, Tiernan and Josephine; and my brother, P.G.
Erste Worte
I think that everything, or at least the part of everything that happened to me, started with the Roman architecture mix-up.
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The world was so big! The sharpness of that knowledge went away almost as soon as I'd boarded the T, but it has returned over the years, and even now sometimes - I am older, and my life is very different - I can feel again how amazed I was that morning.
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HTML:An insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school??s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of??and, ultimately, a participant in??their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she??s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered. Ultimately, Lee??s experiences??complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant??coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland. Praise for Prep ??Curtis Sittenfeld is a young writer with a crazy amount of talent. Her sharp and economical prose reminds us of Joan Didion and Tobias Wolff. Like them, she has a sly and potent wit, which cuts unexpectedly??but often??through the placid surface of her prose. Her voice is strong and clear, her moral compass steady; I??d believe anything she told me.???Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
??Prep??s every sentence rings true. Sittenfeld is a rising star.???Wally Lamb, author of She??s Come Undone
Das Buch ist wirklich sehr gut geschrieben, feine Andeutungen und Rückblenden heben es über das bloße chronologische Erzähln hinaus. Auch die detaillierten Beschreibungen sind so gut vorstellbar, dass es oft direkt wehtut. "Das ist also die Wahrheit über Hanni und Nanni", dachte ich mehrfach, so ist also die psychische Verfasseng, wenn man einfach so in einem Internat mitläuft. Die Unsicherheit und Peinlichkeit des Teenageralters hat ja jeder erlebt, daher ist es gut einzuschätzen, wie beachtlich Sittenfelds Leistung ist, dies präzise und an prägnanten Punkten darzustellen.
Trotzdem glaube ich nicht, dass Lee ihre Deckung gerade bei der Journalistin heruntergelassen hätte. Das erscheint mir unwahrscheinlich.
Und die Eltern taten mir einfach leid. ( )