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Like the Red Panda
Andrea Seigel
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9780156030243 Trade Paperback
0156030241
$14.00
288pages
Available
Trim Size:
5-5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2004
Territory:
World English
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Synopsis |
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Stella Parrish is seventeen, attractive, smart, deeply alienated, and unable to countenance life's absurdities. She is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since her parents OD'd on designer drugs when she was eleven, she has lived with well-meaning but inexperienced foster parents, while her grandfather, her only living relative, tries ever more ingenious ways of committing suicide in his retirement home. Here are the last two weeks of Stella's senior year in Orange County, California: the intensive AP final exams; the childish, celebratory trips; the totemic importance attached to graduation. Beneath Stella's mordantly funny take on her life is the decisiveness with which she disengages from it, planting clues and providing explanations for those who will try to understand the act she is about to commit. With perfect pitch, remarkable wit, and a spare, vivid prose, Stella turns her farewell to suburbia into a wry philosophical inquiry.
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Biography |
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ANDREA SEIGEL is a graduate of Brown University. She is twenty-four years old and lives in Los Angeles.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- General
Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Suicide
Juvenile Fiction- Social Situations/Adolescence
Juvenile Fiction- Girls & Women
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- American Literature
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Second Serial/Reprint/UK: Harcourt
First Serial/Audio/Performance/Translation: Wallace Literary Agency Inc.
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Rights Information |
Harvest Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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