Big Girl Small - Couverture rigide

DeWoskin, Rachel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1611731135 ISBN 13 : 9781611731132

Editeur : Center Point, 2011

Synopsis

Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old--sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?
The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has something--but not everything--to do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall.
Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, "Prep"'s ironic heroine. "Big Girl Small "is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old—sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl with such potential hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town?

It could have something to do with the fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school. And that scandal has something—but not everything—to do with the fact that Judy is three feet, nine inches tall.

Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable) and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep’s ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.

Biographie de l'auteur

RACHEL DeWOSKIN is the author of Foreign Babes in Beijing, a memoir about her inadvertent notoriety as a star of a Chinese soap opera; and a novel, Repeat After Me,/em>. She lives in New York City and Chicago and is at work on a third novel. For more information about her, visit www.racheldewoskin.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center Point
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611731135
• ISBN 13: 9781611731132
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 431
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible