All Souls

English

ISBN: 0156033380

EAN: 9780156033381

Category: Fiction / Psychological

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Release Date: 06/30/2009

Synopsis: In 1997, at the distinguished Siddons School on Manhattans Upper East Side, the school year opens with distressing news: Astra Dell is suffering from a rare disease. Astras friends try to reconcile the girls suffering with their own fierce longings and impetuous attachments. Car writes unsparing letters, which the dirty Marlene, in her devotion, then steals. Other classmates carry on: the silly team of Suki and Alex pursue Will Bliss while the subversive Lisa Van de Ven makes dates with MissWilkes. The world of private schools and privilege in New York City is funny, poignant, and cruel, and at its heart is the stricken Astra Dell, that pale girl from the senior class, the dancer with all the hair, the red hair, knotted or braided or let to fall to her waist, a fever and she consumed.National Book Award finalist Christine Schutt has created a wickedly original tale of innocence, daring, and illness.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize – null 

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All Souls

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.63 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 8.01 oz

Pages: 240