The Beginners
by:
Rebecca Wolff (author)
Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend, Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is instantly attracted to the worldliness and sophistication of...
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Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence while her best friend, Cherry, grows more and more embroiled with boys, Ginger is instantly attracted to the worldliness and sophistication of this dashing couple. But the Motherwells may be more than they seem. As Ginger's keen imagination takes up the seductive mystery of their past, she also draws closer to her town's darker history-back to the days of the Salem witch trials-and every new bit of information she thinks she understands leads only to more questions. Who-or what-exactly, are the Motherwells? And what is it they want with her? Both a lyrical coming-of-age story and a spine-tingling tale of ghostly menace, The Beginners introduces Rebecca Wolff as an exciting new talent in fiction.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594487996 (1594487995)
Publish date: June 30th 2011
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
I normally love reading anything that involves the Salem Witch Trials. I just find the time period fascinating. This though? Just god awful. Seriously. >The connection to the Salem Witch Trials is pretty paper thin. I felt duped reading this, there's so much skeevy sexual activity going on and no...
Ugh, I gave this one up about a hundred pages in. I read some good things about this book, about a young woman uncovering secrets about the new neighbors in her small New England town, but man it just did not deliver. I hated the main character, Ginger. I thought that she took things way, way too se...
I fully admit that I picked this book up because of the gorgeous cover. Happily, I found the tale gripping, and couldn't put the book down. Rebecca Wolff is a poet in her other life, and her mastery of language shows. A novel, of course, is a different animal than a poem, but I felt her craft really...