Pub Date: June 1, 2009
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.59" H x 8.04" L x 5.24" W ( 0.49 lbs) 240 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Women | Friendship | Urban & Street Lit | Literary | Coming of Age | Feminist | Romance | Contemporary | Anthologies (multiple authors) | Short Stories (single author) | City Life | Psychological | Medical | Family Life | General
Description: In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astra's friends try to reconcile the girl's suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: the silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will Bliss while the subversive Lisa Van de Ven makes dates with MissWilkes. The world of private schools and privilege in New York City is funny, poignant, and cruel, and at its heart is the stricken Astra Dell, that pale girl from the senior class, the dancer with all the hair, the red hair, knotted or braided or let to fall to her waist, a fever and she consumed.
National Book Award finalist Christine Schutt has created a wickedly original tale of innocence, daring, and illness.Brief description:
CHRISTINE SCHUTT is the author of the short-story collection Nightwork. Her work, which has garnered an O. Henry Prize and a Pushcart Prize, is published widely in literary journals. Schutt lives and teaches in New York City.
Review Quotes:
PRAISE FOR FLORIDA
"Haunting and original, Florida is a beautiful book."--Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's Children