The Resource Prep : a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld
Prep : a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld
Resource Information
The item Prep : a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Prep : a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won identity within the community is shattered. Lee's experiences, complicated relationships with teachers, intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 2005 Random House Trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 420 pages
- Note
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- "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House ..., in 2005"--Title page vesro
- Includes a Reader's guide containing a conversation with the author and discussion questions
- Contents
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- Thieves
- All school rules are in effect
- Assassin
- Cipher
- Parents' weekend
- Townie
- Spring-cleaning
- Kissing and kissing
- Isbn
- 9780812972351
- Label
- Prep : a novel
- Title
- Prep
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Curtis Sittenfeld
- Subject
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- FICTION -- Coming of Age
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION -- Sagas
- Fiction
- Indiana
- Indiana -- Fiction
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Preparatory school students
- Preparatory school students -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Self-destructive behavior
- Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction
- Teenage girls
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the time she's a senior, Lee has found her place at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her hard-won identity within the community is shattered. Lee's experiences, complicated relationships with teachers, intense and sometimes rancorous friendships with other girls, an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush, are both a psychologically astute portrait of one girl's coming-of-age and an embodiment of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all
- Awards note
- New York Time Bestseller.
- Cataloging source
- ONW
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sittenfeld, Curtis
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Interest level
- Grades 9-12
- Literary form
- novels
- Reading level
- 6.5
- Series statement
- Reader's circle
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Teenage girls
- Preparatory school students
- Self-destructive behavior
- Massachusetts
- Indiana
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- Preparatory school students
- Self-destructive behavior
- Teenage girls
- Indiana
- Massachusetts
- Label
- Prep : a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld
- Note
-
- "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House ..., in 2005"--Title page vesro
- Includes a Reader's guide containing a conversation with the author and discussion questions
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Thieves -- All school rules are in effect -- Assassin -- Cipher -- Parents' weekend -- Townie -- Spring-cleaning -- Kissing and kissing
- Control code
- ocm62892958
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 2005 Random House Trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 420 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812972351
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)62892958
- Label
- Prep : a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld
- Note
-
- "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House ..., in 2005"--Title page vesro
- Includes a Reader's guide containing a conversation with the author and discussion questions
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Thieves -- All school rules are in effect -- Assassin -- Cipher -- Parents' weekend -- Townie -- Spring-cleaning -- Kissing and kissing
- Control code
- ocm62892958
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- 2005 Random House Trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 420 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812972351
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)62892958
Subject
- FICTION -- Coming of Age
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION -- Sagas
- Fiction
- Indiana
- Indiana -- Fiction
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Preparatory school students
- Preparatory school students -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Self-destructive behavior
- Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction
- Teenage girls
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
Genre
Member of
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- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Adult Fiction for Young Adults: 2005
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2005
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