Description
Touches and dazzles and entertains. An enchanting novel. --The New York Times
In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger--until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help--and then everything changes.
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/01/2004
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781400033829
ISBN10: 1400033829
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Women
In this moving, poignant novel by the bestselling author of Birds of America we share a grown woman's bittersweet nostalgia for the wildness of her youth. The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless rules, teasing the fun out of small town life, sleeping in the family station wagon, and drinking borrowed liquor from old mayonnaise jars. But no matter how wild, they always managed to escape any real danger--until the adoring Berie sees that Sils really does need her help--and then everything changes.
Author: Lorrie Moore
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/01/2004
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781400033829
ISBN10: 1400033829
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Women
About the Author
Lorrie Moore, after many years as a professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is now Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Moore has received honors for her work, among them the Irish Times International Prize for Literature and a Lannan Foundation fellowship, as well as the PEN/Malamud Award and the Rea Award for her achievement in the short story. Her novel A Gate at the Stairs was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction and for the PEN/Faulkner Award.