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by Rebecca Stowe| 1.4| English

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Not the End of the World signals the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary American fiction. In much the same way that Kaye Gibbons burst upon the literary scene with her first novel about growing up, Ellen Foster, so has Rebecca Stowe, who has already been compared to Carson McCullers and J.D. Salinger. She gives us a painful and hilarious first-person novel about a Not the End of the World signals the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary American fiction. In much the same way that Kaye Gibbons burst upon the literary scene with her first novel about growing up, Ellen Foster, so has Rebecca Stowe, who has already been compared to Carson McCullers and J.D. Salinger. She gives us a painful and hilarious first-person novel about a bright, troubled girl that captures, as perhaps no other book does, the angst-ridden childhood of many a woman of the Baby Boom generation. Living in affluent North Bay, Michigan, in the early 1960s, in a house with its own beach, Maggie Pittsfield (daughter of Robert “Sweet is My Middle Name” Pittsfield, owner of a local candy factory) is twelve years old. Unique for her corrosive perspicacity and weird precociousness, she is already deeply depressed and alienated from the eccentricity of her family, the sexual perversity of her school, and the nightmarish banality of her mates. “‘It’s a wonder you have any friends,’ Mother used to say when I still had some. ‘You must become a different person when you leave this house.’ Actually I was six different people….Grandmother said I was possessed by the devil and unless we got him out by my thirteenth birthday, my soul would be lost forever, at least what was left of it….” In Not the End of the World, Rebecca Stowe renders Maggie’s splintered personality and formidable aggression, which threaten to implode in tragedy, with painful precision and humor. [117]…more

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Author:Rebecca Stowe
ISBN:9780679409458
Language:English
File Size:1.4
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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