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Age of Consent
Taschenbuch von Amanda Brainerd
Sprache: Englisch

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"A total time machine-I loved it."

-Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and POPSUGAR

A daringly honest, sexy debut novel about three young women coming of age in 1980s New England and New York-a bingeable summer read

It's 1983. David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan has never been cooler. But Justine and Eve are stuck at Griswold Academy, a Connecticut boarding school. Griswold is a far cry from Justine's bohemian life in New Haven, where her parents run a theater and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of status-obsessed Park Avenue parents, also feels like an outsider amidst Griswold's preppy jocks and debutantes. Justine longs for Eve's privilege, and Eve for Justine's sexual confidence. Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory older men.

After a tumultuous school year, Eve and Justine spend the summer in New York City, where they join Eve's childhood friend, India. Justine moves into India's Hell's Kitchen apartment and is pulled further into her friends' glamorous lives. Eve, under her parents' ever-watchful eye, interns at a SoHo art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims of her boss. India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them, even as the young women begin to assert their independence.

A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental damage, Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years.

Story Locale: A fictional Connecticut boarding school, New York City, and Long Island, NY
"A total time machine-I loved it."

-Maria Semple, New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and POPSUGAR

A daringly honest, sexy debut novel about three young women coming of age in 1980s New England and New York-a bingeable summer read

It's 1983. David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan has never been cooler. But Justine and Eve are stuck at Griswold Academy, a Connecticut boarding school. Griswold is a far cry from Justine's bohemian life in New Haven, where her parents run a theater and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of status-obsessed Park Avenue parents, also feels like an outsider amidst Griswold's preppy jocks and debutantes. Justine longs for Eve's privilege, and Eve for Justine's sexual confidence. Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory older men.

After a tumultuous school year, Eve and Justine spend the summer in New York City, where they join Eve's childhood friend, India. Justine moves into India's Hell's Kitchen apartment and is pulled further into her friends' glamorous lives. Eve, under her parents' ever-watchful eye, interns at a SoHo art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims of her boss. India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them, even as the young women begin to assert their independence.

A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental damage, Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years.

Story Locale: A fictional Connecticut boarding school, New York City, and Long Island, NY
Über den Autor
Amanda Brainerd
Zusammenfassung
ELECTRIFYING SUMMER PUBLICATION Widely recognized by outlets like Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and others as one of the year's best summer reads, Age of Consent was published in the heat of the season and lauded as a transporting page-turner in a time when readers were craving nostalgic stories.

TIMELY ISSUES, COMPULSIVELY READABLE: Told from the perspectives of three teenage young women, Age of Consent has much to say about our contemporary moment as our society reckons with the ways young women have been abused and mistreated. The writing is intimate and confessional and will put readers deep into the minds of these young women.

BASED ON AUTHOR'S LIFE: Amanda Brainerd grew up in Manhattan during the 1980s and attended a boarding school in Connecticut. She did extensive research and interviews with her friends from this period in order to write the novel, which is inspired by real events.

ADDICTIVE BOARDING SCHOOL NOVEL: Set on a fictional campus, Brainerd captures the excitement, mischievousness, and vulnerability that so many kids go through as they are sent away in those pivotal years spanning teenagehood and adulthood.

Praise for Age of Consent

"A breathless time capsule of a book, Age of Consent is a coming-of-age period piece that feels very much of the now."

-Harper's Bazaar

"[A] stunning debut."

-Bustle
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 17
Empfohlen (von): 13
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 330 S.
ISBN-13: 9781984879547
ISBN-10: 1984879545
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brainerd, Amanda
Hersteller: Transworld
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 193 x 125 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Amanda Brainerd
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,252 kg
Artikel-ID: 119640906
Über den Autor
Amanda Brainerd
Zusammenfassung
ELECTRIFYING SUMMER PUBLICATION Widely recognized by outlets like Good Morning America, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, and others as one of the year's best summer reads, Age of Consent was published in the heat of the season and lauded as a transporting page-turner in a time when readers were craving nostalgic stories.

TIMELY ISSUES, COMPULSIVELY READABLE: Told from the perspectives of three teenage young women, Age of Consent has much to say about our contemporary moment as our society reckons with the ways young women have been abused and mistreated. The writing is intimate and confessional and will put readers deep into the minds of these young women.

BASED ON AUTHOR'S LIFE: Amanda Brainerd grew up in Manhattan during the 1980s and attended a boarding school in Connecticut. She did extensive research and interviews with her friends from this period in order to write the novel, which is inspired by real events.

ADDICTIVE BOARDING SCHOOL NOVEL: Set on a fictional campus, Brainerd captures the excitement, mischievousness, and vulnerability that so many kids go through as they are sent away in those pivotal years spanning teenagehood and adulthood.

Praise for Age of Consent

"A breathless time capsule of a book, Age of Consent is a coming-of-age period piece that feels very much of the now."

-Harper's Bazaar

"[A] stunning debut."

-Bustle
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 17
Empfohlen (von): 13
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 330 S.
ISBN-13: 9781984879547
ISBN-10: 1984879545
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Brainerd, Amanda
Hersteller: Transworld
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 193 x 125 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Amanda Brainerd
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,252 kg
Artikel-ID: 119640906
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