Sleepwalking

Wolitzer, Meg

ISBN 10: 0394521552 / ISBN 13: 9780394521558

Edité par Random House Inc, New York, NY, 1982

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This is a Review Copy (Publisher's Promotional Material and Publicist's card laid-in) that has been SIGNED by Meg Wolitzer on the title page! The author's debut - written when she was 22 years of age. "Sleepwalking" was written during her senior year at Brown and was accepted for publication before her graduation. N° de réf. du vendeur 7444

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Titre : Sleepwalking

Éditeur : Random House Inc, New York, NY

Date d'édition : 1982

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : First Edition/First Printing

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Book by Wolitzer Meg

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The debut novel from New York Times–bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a story of three college students’ shared fascination with poetry and death, and how one of them must face difficult truths in order to leave her obsession behind.

Published when she was only twenty-three and written while she was a student at Brown, Sleepwalking marks the beginning of Meg Wolitzer’s acclaimed career.  Filled with her usual wisdom, compassion and insight, Sleepwalking tells the story of the three notorious “death girls,” so called on the Swarthmore campus because they dress in black and are each absorbed in the work and suicide of a different poet: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Wolitzer’s creation Lucy Asher, a gifted writer who drowned herself at twenty-four.  At night the death girls gather in a candlelit room to read their heroines’ work aloud.

But an affair with Julian, an upperclassman, pushes sensitive , struggling Claire Danziger—she of the Lucy Asher obsession-–to consider to what degree her “death girl” identity is really who she is.  As she grapples with her feelings for Julian, her own understanding of herself and her past begins to shift uncomfortably and even disturbingly. Finally, Claire takes drastic measures to confront the facts about herself that she has been avoiding for years.