History Lesson for Girls Hardcover - 2006
by Sheehan, Aurelie
- Used
A beautiful and resonant novel about a friendship that shaped a life during a decade of instability
Everyone remembers age thirteen. For Alison Glass, it was 1975, the year she moved to Weston, Connecticut, with her bohemian parents and her horse, Jazz. Life was about trying to navigate the hypocrisies of an unfamiliar affluent town and figuring out how she might blend in at school despite her status as the new girl with a back brace for scoliosis. Kate Hamilton, the popular daughter of an egomaniacal New Age guru the 'sham shaman' and his substance-loving wife, was an unlikely friend, the strong girl Alison regarded as her saving grace. Bonding over their love of horses, they rode away the afternoons, creating a private world for themselves as a way to survive the excesses of their surroundings and the adults who cast them adrift in such a tumultuous time. With the clarity of hindsight, Alison looks back on how the tumult inevitably broke through.
Set against the backdrop of the often hilariously tacky and disturbingly reckless 1970s, Aurelie Sheehan's luminous History Lesson for Girls is at once an emotional inquest and an elegy for a friendship that meant everything. As Alison traces the giddy highs and crushing lows that made her the person she was at thirteen, a picture emerges of a friendship that simply couldn't survive the weight of the shadows under which it was forged. Combining the poignancy and elegance of The Virgin Suicides with the sharp observational eye of TheIce Storm, History Lesson for Girls is an enchanting tribute to the lingering influence of friendship and significance of personal history.
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- Title History Lesson for Girls
- Author Sheehan, Aurelie
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York
- Date 2006-07-06
- Bookseller's Inventory # 18118633-75
- ISBN 9780670037674 / 0670037672
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.38 x 6.7 x 1.16 in (21.29 x 17.02 x 2.95 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005057472
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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