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"You Have Now Entered a Chick-Lit-Free Zone," O'Connor's dark, scabrous debut warns. Given the sassy title and the familiar subject matter of female friendship, readers should be forgiven if they expect Bridget Jones—but O'Conner's heroines resemble that lovable Brit like leopards resemble kittens. The story focuses on three friends, Cherry, Amy and Rennie, as high school seniors and as women in their mid-30s. Compelled by miserable home lives to form the Bitch Posse as teenagers, the three girls ricochet dangerously through their last year of high school, sharing a passionate, almost sinister bond until a terrible secret rips them apart. Still damaged—and separated—by the unspeakable event, the three live equally wretched lives as adults, Cherry in a mental institution, Rennie as a promiscuous failed writer and Amy in a loveless marriage. After pages of vodka, cocaine, "fucking" and "cutting" (in both past and present narratives), the friends' terrible secret finally comes to light, though it reveals logistical and thematic gaps in the narrative. "[H]er past is like a sore that won't ever heal, memories are spurting at her like blood and she can't close the wound" characterizes the level of emotional complexity attained in this heavy-handed novel, but the story fascinates even as it repels. Agent, Mary Evans. (May)
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"A book that will walk alongside you, and haunt your dreams, long after you turn the last page." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
"A debut worthy of Joyce Carol Oates." -- Edmund White, author of Fanny: A Fiction
"A little substance never hurt anyone, and The Bitch Posse offers plenty." -- Winnipeg Free Press
"A novel that gets under the skin, a novel that cuts deep." -- Gayle Brandeis, author of The Book of Dead Birds
"An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage." -- MARIE CLAIRE (UK)
"As good a debut as it's cracked up to be...edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines." -- The Tatler (UK)
"One of the saddest, funniest, and most original stories about deep emotional connections and_the forces that threaten to unravel them." -- Lori Gottlieb, author of Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
"Reminiscent of cult movie 'Heathers', it revels in the seedy underbelly of American life." -- Glamour (UK)
"The story fascinates even as it repels." -- Publishers Weekly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"You Have Now Entered a Chick-Lit-Free Zone," O'Connor's dark, scabrous debut warns. Given the sassy title and the familiar subject matter of female friendship, readers should be forgiven if they expect Bridget Jones—but O'Conner's heroines resemble that lovable Brit like leopards resemble kittens. The story focuses on three friends, Cherry, Amy and Rennie, as high school seniors and as women in their mid-30s. Compelled by miserable home lives to form the Bitch Posse as teenagers, the three girls ricochet dangerously through their last year of high school, sharing a passionate, almost sinister bond until a terrible secret rips them apart. Still damaged—and separated—by the unspeakable event, the three live equally wretched lives as adults, Cherry in a mental institution, Rennie as a promiscuous failed writer and Amy in a loveless marriage. After pages of vodka, cocaine, "fucking" and "cutting" (in both past and present narratives), the friends' terrible secret finally comes to light, though it reveals logistical and thematic gaps in the narrative. "[H]er past is like a sore that won't ever heal, memories are spurting at her like blood and she can't close the wound" characterizes the level of emotional complexity attained in this heavy-handed novel, but the story fascinates even as it repels. Agent, Mary Evans. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"A book that will walk alongside you, and haunt your dreams, long after you turn the last page." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
"A debut worthy of Joyce Carol Oates." -- Edmund White, author of Fanny: A Fiction
"A little substance never hurt anyone, and The Bitch Posse offers plenty." -- Winnipeg Free Press
"A novel that gets under the skin, a novel that cuts deep." -- Gayle Brandeis, author of The Book of Dead Birds
"An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage." -- MARIE CLAIRE (UK)
"As good a debut as it's cracked up to be...edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines." -- The Tatler (UK)
"One of the saddest, funniest, and most original stories about deep emotional connections and_the forces that threaten to unravel them." -- Lori Gottlieb, author of Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
"Reminiscent of cult movie 'Heathers', it revels in the seedy underbelly of American life." -- Glamour (UK)
"The story fascinates even as it repels." -- Publishers Weekly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Rennie's heart is pounding so hard her chest is going to burst in a minute. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rennie Taylor, Wren Taylor, Porter Place, Amy Linnet, Cherry Winters, Mill Valley, Rob Schafer, Bitch Goddess Notebook, Cherry May, Palo Alto, San Francisco State, Hattie Gibson-Smythe, Mary Sue, Pepper Perryman, Sam Sterling, Abby Green, Amy Tan, Ann Wennie, Cock Robin, Marin County, Psych Building, Sault Sainte Marie, Student Union, Amy Dionne, California Rennie New!
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Rennie's heart is pounding so hard her chest is going to burst in a minute. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rennie Taylor, Wren Taylor, Porter Place, Amy Linnet, Cherry Winters, Mill Valley, Rob Schafer, Bitch Goddess Notebook, Cherry May, Palo Alto, San Francisco State, Hattie Gibson-Smythe, Mary Sue, Pepper Perryman, Sam Sterling, Abby Green, Amy Tan, Ann Wennie, Cock Robin, Marin County, Psych Building, Sault Sainte Marie, Student Union, Amy Dionne, California Rennie New!
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- Passions and Impressions by Pablo Neruda on page 310, and page 312
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on page 74
- Romeo And Juliet (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on page 74
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott on page 102
- Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare on page 74
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