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Gossip of the Starlings | 
 enlarge | Author: Nina De Gramont
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 4790
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 276
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1565125657
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781565125650
ASIN: 1565125657
Publication Date: June 10, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the charismatic and beautiful Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is a young woman hell-bent on a trajectory of self-destruction, and she doesn't care who is taken down with her. No matter the transgression—a stolen credit card, a cocaine binge, an affair with a teacher, an accident that precipitates the end of Catherine's promising riding career—Catherine can neither resist Skye's spell nor stop her downward spiral.
De Gramont's chilling novel is a portrait of an adolescent girl so thoroughly seduced by a peer that she willingly follows her to ruin. Caught in a world that is both appealing and astonishing, these young women are sexual beings with the minds of teenagers: willful, selfish, daring, and cruel—all the while believing they're utterly indestructible.
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A good read June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book earns the many good reviews it has received. Its a well crafted and beautifully written tragedy about an insular group of self destructive prepsters during the Reagan years, containing far deeper observations and themes than "chick lit." This is a truly literary effort. I'd give it five stars, except that despite its merits, I found it hard in the end to really care about the two main female characters, despite the author's best efforts to set them up for empathy.
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