Serious Girls - by Maxine Swann (Paperback)

Name: Serious Girls - by Maxine Swann (Paperback)
Brand: Picador USA
SKU: 1006242277
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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

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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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