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| Original Title: | Prep |
| ISBN: | 081297235X (ISBN13: 9780812972351) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lee Fiora, Cross Sugarman, Martha Porter, Aspeth Montgomery, Dede Schwartz, Sin Jun, Conchita Maxwell, David Bardo, Aubrey |
| Setting: | Massachusetts(United States) South Bend, Indiana(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2006) |
Curtis Sittenfeld
Paperback | Pages: 420 pages Rating: 3.39 | 58893 Users | 4775 Reviews
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Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
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| Title | : | Prep |
| Author | : | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 420 pages |
| Published | : | November 22nd 2005 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published January 17th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Young Adult. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary. Coming Of Age. School Stories. Boarding School. Adult Fiction |
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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 - and then they say what was it like? And I should just hand them this book and say it was like this.It was exactly like this, down to such uncanny details that I looked it up to make sure it wasn'tLet me first admit that "Prep" was far from perfect. Im not sure I could argue against many of the bad reviews. At times, I longed for the novel to hurry along. The foreshadowing was clunky. Occasionally I was so bored I wasn't sure I could get through the entire novel.And then (heavy sigh), Sittenfeld did what I hadnt imagined anyone could do. She made me relive the most painful experiences of high school with such honesty that it was hard to believe that she wrote the book as an adult. I was
Curtis Sittenfeld popped up on my radar after I read two of her stories in The New Yorker - Gender Studies & The Prairie Wife. She's got a book of collected short stories coming out next year - too long for me to wait - so I decided to give this novel a try. I'm glad I did, though I suspect it's not for everyone. Here we have the tale of Lee Fiora, a Midwestern girl on her own at a hoity-toity East coast prep school. Much of Lee's experiences are universal, and shared by young adults at any
I always say that if a writer can evoke complete hatred and dislike for their protagonist from me, then they must be a good writer (Lucinda Rosenfeld's What She Saw... comes to mind). So, in that regard, Curtis Sittenfeld is an excellent writer (perhaps it's a last name thing) but Prep sucks. Two reasons why I hated Prep: 1) NOTHING happens. I don't mind episodic novels in which each chapter is a tiny event that comes together as a whole (Peter Darbyshire's Please is an excellent example of
Reviewed by Amanda Dissinger for TeensReadToo.comWalking through the typical young adult section of a bookstore, there are usually five, maybe even ten, books about a teenage girl, perhaps from a small town, who transfers from that wee little town to a prep school. Typically, this prep school is in Connecticut, or Massachusetts. Typically, the girl starts out struggling, tries to fit in with the popular crowd, misses her hometown, faces many moral problems, and meets a handsome, promising young
In her ruthless efforts to make a book that depicts how prep school really is, Curtis Sittenfelds Prep forgets that in order for a novel to work things must happen. Assumedly, the book was supposed to be a coming-of-age novel wherein the fish-out-of-water protagonist Lee Fiora, learns to exceed the repressive bounds of prep school and get over her personal issues. However, this is not the case. Instead the book is horribly lopsided, Sittenfeld spends three hundred pages having the protagonist
I always say that if a writer can evoke complete hatred and dislike for their protagonist from me, then they must be a good writer (Lucinda Rosenfeld's What She Saw... comes to mind). So, in that regard, Curtis Sittenfeld is an excellent writer (perhaps it's a last name thing) but Prep sucks. Two reasons why I hated Prep: 1) NOTHING happens. I don't mind episodic novels in which each chapter is a tiny event that comes together as a whole (Peter Darbyshire's Please is an excellent example of
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