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Highlights
- Sixteen year olds Maya and Roe form an intense friendship when they find themselves cast as outsiders at an all girls boarding school.
- About the Author: Mazime Swann's short story "Flower Children" won the Cohen Award, The O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize and was included in The Best American Short Stories.
- 240 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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Book Synopsis
Sixteen year olds Maya and Roe form an intense friendship when they find themselves cast as outsiders at an all girls boarding school. Sharing their life stories, and curiosity about the adult world, they wonder how they might become "people" with style and character as opposed to school girls. When they move beyond the enclosed world of the school to experience the city, and relationships with men, both girls test the line between an emerging sense of self and its total disintegration.
Review Quotes
"Like Virginia Wolf or Doris Lessing, Swann has a sharp ear for young women's inner dialogues....Her spare prose (save for a smattering of lovely similes) and straightforward plot are interrupted, wonderfully by telling insights." --Alizah Salario, Ms. Magazine
About the Author
Mazime Swann's short story "Flower Children" won the Cohen Award, The O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize and was included in The Best American Short Stories. Serious Girls is her first novel.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.24 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .61 Inches (D)
Weight: .47 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 240
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Picador USA
Format: Paperback
Author: Maxine Swann
Language: English
Street Date: December 1, 2004
TCIN: 1006242277
UPC: 9780312288013
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-7479
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 0.61 inches length x 5.5 inches width x 8.24 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.47 pounds
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