Prep

Name: Prep
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
ISBN: 9781449853389

Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrator: Julie Dretzin

Unabridged: 17 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/10/2010

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

This New York Times best-seller is a funny and poignant coming-of-age story, a dead-on examination of adolescent angst, and a sharp criticism of America's social structure. Fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora enrolls at the prestigious Ault School of Massachusetts and is surrounded by beautiful, wealthy students. She immediately feels like an outsider, but manages to carve out a niche for herself. Then everything falls apart when Lee's private thoughts become public information.

About Curtis Sittenfeld

CURTIS SITTENFELD is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, Sisterland, Eligible, and the forthcoming Rodham, which have been translated into thirty languages. She is also the author of the short story collection You Think It, I'll Say It and her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, the Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories. Her nonfiction has been published inthe New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Glamour, and broadcast on public radio’s This American Life. A native of Cincinnati, she currently lives with her family in Minneapolis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Misa on March 25, 2008

Let me first admit that "Prep" was far from perfect. I’m not sure I could argue against many of the bad reviews. At times, I longed for the novel to hurry along. The foreshadowing was clunky. Occasionally I was so bored I wasn't sure I could get through the entire novel. And then (heavy sigh), Sitten......more

Goodreads review by Anna on September 25, 2007

This book makes me want to shout at its critics, "you don't have to identify with the protagonist to like the book!--identification isn't the only reason to read!". But then I want to defend it precisely because it seems so "real." I.e., I identify with it. Now I say "defend" because the book is mar......more

Goodreads review by Charity on August 27, 2010

Again, I was shocked by the reviews after hopping on Goodreads. Only this time, I loved it and yet, there were so many haters. Can't a girl get a break? Am I forever doomed to be the outsider? Okay, a little overly dramatic, to be sure. There are MANY more who seemed to have enjoyed it than despised......more