Prep
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345507297 (0345507290)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
School Stories,
Boarding School
Curtis Sittenfeld creates a character, Lee, who personally I could not stand. That's one of the most interesting parts of the books. Every page I turned I was begging for a personality change in Lee. Many others who read this book related completely to Lee as a character and felt it really repres...
I went to prep school. Briefly. In Massachusetts. It was a place with a chapel and a headmaster who knew everyone's names.When I tell people that, they're like whoa, really? Because, I assume, me and the place described in this book don't seem to go together very well - which, good point, we didn't ...
When I went to college I was shocked to meet kids who had actually attended boarding school. I had grown up on a steady diet of boarding school literature, but conceptually, it seemed so preposterous. You went to boarding school if you were European and from the 19th century, not if you were America...
an author gets a certain amount of points when they really pound away at their work, especially with the MFA free-fire zone, and so every sentence is constructed bang-on to build to greater and greater effect. this is something highly refined about the first third, at least, of Prep, and I can easil...
A young woman trying to settle into a different environment and how she copes with lifes ups and downs. A bit lie 'Mallory Towers' series
11 years ago
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