Use Me (Paperback)
| Author: Elissa Schappell |
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Publish Date: 9/19/2011
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336
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| A debut novel told in ten interconnecting stories captures the most profound moments and experiences in a young womans life, as she grows from a rebellious suburban adolescent to complex adult in New York City and struggles to establish intimate relationships with the men in her life while maintaining a link with her best friend and sometime competitor. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. *Author: Schappell, Elissa *Publication Date: 2001/03/01 *Number of Pages: 320 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.50 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 8.00 |
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The exquisitely artful fiction debut of Vanity Fair columnist Elissa Schappell is a novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman -- friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a child, and the death of a father. The exquisitely artful fiction debut of Vanity Fair columnist Elissa Schappell is a novel told in ten stories that resonate with the most profound experiences in the life of a young woman -- friendship and rivalry, the love for a man, the birth of a child, and the death of a father. |
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This novel in 10 sections is linked by their theme: Evie's relationship with her parents, in particular her father, who is dying of cancer. In various superstitious ways, Evie tries to find a way to help her father; her attempts include pregnancy, prayer, and an attempt to get cancer herself. In the story of her father's illness, Evie also provides a moving chronicle of her own life. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
This novel in 10 sections is linked by their theme: Evie's relationship with her parents, in particular her father, who is dying of cancer. In various superstitious ways, Evie tries to find a way to help her father; her attempts include pregnancy, prayer, and an attempt to get cancer herself. In the story of her father's illness, Evie also provides a moving chronicle of her own life. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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New York Times Book Review
"Elissa Schappell's USE ME is a wonderfully satisfying book, the kind of coming-of-age novel that somehow fulfills the expectations of the genre in unexpected ways. Schappell is a comic writer with impeccable timing, and USE ME is quick and entertaining.....Schappell takes a risk that is all the more startling and painful coming as it does in such an amusing book--she is uncompromising not only about what is absurd and contemptible. She is uncompromising about what is sincere." - Cathleen Schine 04/09/2000 Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[F]ull of sass and polished to a high gloss. It's also smart, honest, sexy..." 12/03/2000
"Elissa Schappell's USE ME is a wonderfully satisfying book, the kind of coming-of-age novel that somehow fulfills the expectations of the genre in unexpected ways. Schappell is a comic writer with impeccable timing, and USE ME is quick and entertaining.....Schappell takes a risk that is all the more startling and painful coming as it does in such an amusing book--she is uncompromising not only about what is absurd and contemptible. She is uncompromising about what is sincere." - Cathleen Schine 04/09/2000 Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[F]ull of sass and polished to a high gloss. It's also smart, honest, sexy..." 12/03/2000
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