Arcadia
Lauren Groff,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Voice on 03-13-2012
Lauren Groff,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Voice on 03-13-2012
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9781401340872
Publish date: 13-03-2012
Publisher: Voice
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Dystopia,
Fiction
Am I just the buzzkill who wouldn't drop acid at the party? Did someone shut off the volcano that fueled my lava lamp? How do I explain my huge disappointment in this book? I, who loved The Monsters of Templeton and Delicate Edible Birds, found Arcadia unreadable. Why? The story is slave to the styl...
MY THOUGHTSReally Liked It.Born and raised in a commune during the early sixties, Bit doesn't attend regular school, eats no processed food, has never really seen movies or television and reads for entertainment. Arcadia is built by a group of people that want to live off the grid and be self susta...
also available at: http://parnassusreads.comArcadia by Lauren Groff is a beautiful, quiet little book. It starts at the titular Arcadia, a hippie commune established in the 70s somewhere in the upper-midwestern or northeastern United States. The novel is predominantly told from Bit’s perspective, th...
I won this ARC from LibraryThing. Having read Lauren Groff's first book [b:The Monsters of Templeton|1474628|The Monsters of Templeton|Lauren Groff|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516i5eHuzPL._SL75_.jpg|2881737], I thought the writing was excellent but the story line needed a bit of work. In ...