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Author | : Pamela Erens |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1935639625 |
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It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster. The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.
Author | : Catherine Cookson |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781451660173 |
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From Simon & Schuster, The Year of the Virgins is another master work of historical fiction from Catherine Cookson. Struggling to maintain a facade of family harmony for the sake of their religious beliefs and three grown children, Winifred and Daniel Coulson begin a legacy in which their youngest son, Donald, must choose between the values of the past and present.
Author | : Pamela Erens |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1935639633 |
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The Virgins is the story of Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung's erotic awakening at Auburn Academy re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur, now repentant narrator, whose envy spurs the novel's tragic end. * A New York Times Editor's Choice selection * A Chicago Tribune Editor's Choice selection * A Best Book of 2013, The New Yorker * A Best Book of 2013, The New Republic * A Critics' Choice selection for 2013, Salon * A Best Indie Title of 2013, Library Journal * One of Redbook's "Top Ten Beach Reads of 2013" * One of O Magazine's "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now," August 2013 * Featured in The Millions's "Most-Anticipated" List 2013 * A "This Week's Hot Reads" selection, The Daily Beast * A Vanity Fair Hot Type selection * The Virgins was a finalist for the John Gardner Award * Publishers Weekly named The Virgins one of the best boarding school books of all time It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster. The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.
Author | : Jillian Becker |
Publisher | : Orion |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction in English |
ISBN | : 9780575020733 |
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Author | : Caryl Rivers |
Publisher | : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671553869 |
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Author | : Michael Elswit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pamela Erens |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781848549906 |
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'Erens brilliantly captures the dark side of adolescence . . . On a par with the likes of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides' Independent 'Flawlessly executed and irrefutably true' John Irving 'A must for fans of Nabokovian tragedy' Irish Tatler The events of 1979-80 reverberate around the campus of Auburn Academy and linger many years later in the mind of narrator Bruce Bennett-Jones. Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are an unlikely couple at the elite East Coast boarding school and are not shy in flaunting their newly discovered sexuality. Their blossoming relationship is watched with envy and fascination by Bruce and other classmates, who believe their liaison to be one of pure, unadulterated passion and pleasure. But nothing is what it seems, and as Aviva and Seung struggle to understand themselves and each other, things begin to fall apart. Their ultimate descent into shame and betrayal has disastrous consequences beyond their own lives.
Author | : JILLIAN BECKER |
Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-06-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 178301461X |
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Annie Firman is growing up in Johannesburg in apartheid South Africa, in an affluent white suburb and a local girls' boarding-school. She and her friend Barb long to be initiated into the mysteries of adult life, above all to taste the forbidden fruit of sexual love. Annie falls heavily for a pretentious young man, a photographer who draws her on but finally lets her down. Bitterly disappointed, she consoles herself by making love - against the law - to a "e;colored"e; boy of her own age whom she can order to do her will. The writing is witty, comic, and lightly satirical, but for all the simplicity of the story it is a profoundly moral and challenging novel. Published first in England, it was banned in South Africa for ten years, then republished in that country when the process of "e;liberalization"e; began.
Author | : Jane Rogers |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618066131 |
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When Prophet John Wroe was told by God to comfort himself with seven virgins, his congregation gave him their daughters. So begins this provocative and "immensely powerful" ("Booklist") novel, set in 19th-century England and based on actual events.
Author | : Erik Barmack |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312335137 |
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