In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd...

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1. Verfasser:	Sittenfeld, Curtis 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Random House 2005
Schlagworte:	aTeenage girls > vFiction aPreparatory school students > vFiction aSelf-destructive behavior > vFiction aMassachusetts > vFiction aIndiana > vFiction aBildungsromans Fiktionale Darstellung Bildungsromans Psychological fiction
Zusammenfassung:	In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won identity within the community is shattered. Lee's experiences, complicated relationships with teachers, intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
Beschreibung:	406 S.
ISBN:	1400062314