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My absolute darling
- Title
- My absolute darling / Gabriel Tallent.
- Author
- Tallent, Gabriel
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 18-907 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 417 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her."--
- Subjects
- Survivalism
- Teenage girls
- Friendship
- Infatuation
- Motherless families
- California, Northern
- Survivalism > Fiction
- Teenage girls > Fiction
- Friendship > Fiction
- Infatuation > Fiction
- Fiction
- FICTION > Coming of Age
- Motherless families > Fiction
- Dysfunctional families > Fiction
- Interpersonal relations in adolescence > Fiction
- Middle schools > Fiction
- California, Northern > Fiction
- Widowers > Fiction
- FICTION > Literary
- Bildungsromans
- FICTION > Action & Adventure
- Psychological fiction
- Sexually abused children > Fiction
- Identity (Psychology) in adolescence > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Psychological fiction.
- Note
- "A novel"--Jacket.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-907
- ISBN
- 9780735211179
- 0735211175
- LCCN
- 2017013020
- 40027423720
- OCLC
- 967077614
- Author
- Tallent, Gabriel, author.
- Title
- My absolute darling / Gabriel Tallent.
- Publisher
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Tallent, Gabriel. My absolute darling. New York : Riverhead Books, 2017 9780735211193 (DLC) 2017028202 (OCoLC)990141317
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027423720
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-907