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Cargando... Beach Week: A Novel (edición 2011)por Susan Coll
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I like Susan Coll's writing. I thoroughly enjoyed reading her previous novel, Rockville Pike. Full disclosure: I live within walking distance of the real Rockville Pike. However, Beach Week did not do it for me as much as I hoped. It was supposed to be funny, but I only found it mildly amusing. I felt sorry for Jordan, the girl about whom this book was written. Her sadness at losing a potential boyfriend was overlooked by her parents who were so distracted by other things. Full disclosure: I have a daughter named Jordana. The idea of a book about beach week by a local author seemed like fun. The fictitious city of Verona (or was it a county named Verona?) sounded very much like Bethesda, Maryland. The fictitious beach town of Chelsea Beach sounded akin to Ocean City, Maryland. So what was there not to like? The story is of a group of parents who allow their children to go for a week to a beach town at the end of their senior year of high school. To do so, the "children", now young men and women, have to agree to a chaperone and to follow a very rigid list of rules. The reader knows what's going to happen. At least those readers who've been teenagers spending time with other teens at the beach in the past know. If you don't know, read the book. If you do know, read the book anyway, compare it to your own experiences, and tell me what you think of this story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Ah, "beach week" a time-honored tradition in which the D.C. suburbs' latest herd of high school grads flocks to Chelsea Beach for seven whole days of debauched celebration. In this dark comedy, ten teenage girls plan an unhinged blowout the likes of which their young lives have never seen. They smuggle vodka in water bottles and horde prescription drugs by the dozen. Meanwhile, their misguided, affluent parents are too busy worrying about legal liabilities to fret over some missing pills or random hookups. For Jordan Adler and her family, though, this rite of passage threatens to become more than just frivolous fun. The teen's parents, Leah and Charles, might not let their only child go at all. Their marriage is in shambles, their old house is languishing on the market, and the bills are stacking up. With all that stress, it soon seems they're behaving as irresponsibly as their daughter and her friends. With the wit of Nora Ephron and the insight of Tom Perrotta, Susan Coll satirizes a new teenage rite of passage, in the process dismantling the lives of families in transition. "Beach Week" is a hilarious, well-observed look at the end of childhood and the human need to commemorate it--expensively. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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