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Cargando... How to Set a Fire and Why: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) (2016 original; edición 2017)por Jesse Ball (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is definitely my favorite book of the year so far. I doubt anything will be able to top it. ( ) Accessible yet not conventional, absurdist author Jesse Ball's latest novel takes on the voice of a teenage girl who should be broken and diminished by her tragic life, yet looks to find hope and acceptance in fire, madness, death and friendship. In first person narrative and prose alternately simple and florid, teenage Lucia's voice is clear and constant, sharp, funny, and sarcastic with a beautiful intelligence that, like the fires she plans, will never be contained. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"How to Set a Fire and Why is a blistering, singular, devastating novel by Jesse Ball ("A young genius who hits all of the right notes." --Chicago Tribune) about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. Lucia has been kicked out of school, again, this time for stabbing a boy in the neck with a pencil. Her father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. Making her way through the world with only a book, a Zippo lighter, and a pocket full of stolen licorice, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother in The Home, avoiding the landlord who hates her, and following the only rule that makes any sense: Don't Do Things You Aren't Proud Of. When Lucia starts at Whistler High it seems no different from the schools that came before: girls play field hockey, chasing the ball like dogs, the school psychologist has beanbag chairs in her office, and detention means sitting silently surrounded by stupid people ("I am a veteran of detention"). But when Lucia discovers a secret Arson Club, she will do anything to be a part of it. With a biting wit and striking intelligence that she can't fully hide, Lucia animates her small-town life: the parties at an abandoned water park, visits to the 24-hour donut shop where her friend Lana's cousin works, the little island in the middle of a medical park where kids go to drink. As Lucia's fascination with the Arson Club grows, her chronicle becomes a riveting story of family, loss, misguided friendship, and destruction"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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