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Nothing Is Terrible: A Novel Paperback - 2000
by Sharpe, Matthew
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- Title Nothing Is Terrible: A Novel
- Author Sharpe, Matthew
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 286
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Villard
- Date 2000-02-22
- Bookseller's Inventory # 081299227X_new
- ISBN 9780812992274 / 081299227X
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.76 x 0.7 in (21.49 x 14.63 x 1.78 cm)
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- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Matthew Sharpe's debut collection, Stories from the Tube, was praised in the "Los Angeles Times Book Review for its "wildly effective-and often touching-collisions of the banal and the surreal." "Wiredcalled it "unsettling, lovely, creepy"; "Forbes FYI heralded it as a "remarkable fiction debut." In "Nothing Is Terrible, his first novel, Sharpe astonishes once again with the hallucinatory and hilarious story of a girl's unusual coming-of-age and her search for love in unlikely places.
Her name is Mary White, though she prefers to be called Paul, the name of her ill-fated twin brother. Bright, pragmatic, irreverent, and orphaned, she is being raised by her clueless aunt and uncle and fears she may be about to drown in dull suburban torpor-until she falls in love with her new sixth-grade teacher, Miss Skip Hartman. Devoted teacher and pupil run off to live in New York City, where Mary receives a very unconventional education (art dealers, drug dealers, boyfriends, epic piercings) and discovers redemptive power in even the most unorthodox kind of love, all of which she relates in the most Brontean gentle-reader tone.
In Nothing Is Terrible, Matthew Sharpe takes the bildungsroman and turns it upside down and inside out. Like a breakneck sprint through a Manhattan house of mirrors, it offers readers a giddily literate tour of the resourceful mind of a singular young woman.
Her name is Mary White, though she prefers to be called Paul, the name of her ill-fated twin brother. Bright, pragmatic, irreverent, and orphaned, she is being raised by her clueless aunt and uncle and fears she may be about to drown in dull suburban torpor-until she falls in love with her new sixth-grade teacher, Miss Skip Hartman. Devoted teacher and pupil run off to live in New York City, where Mary receives a very unconventional education (art dealers, drug dealers, boyfriends, epic piercings) and discovers redemptive power in even the most unorthodox kind of love, all of which she relates in the most Brontean gentle-reader tone.
In Nothing Is Terrible, Matthew Sharpe takes the bildungsroman and turns it upside down and inside out. Like a breakneck sprint through a Manhattan house of mirrors, it offers readers a giddily literate tour of the resourceful mind of a singular young woman.
"From the Hardcover edition.