- Fiction, coming of age, New york (state), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Friendship
"Berie Carr, an American woman visiting Paris with her husband, summons up for us a summer in 1972 when she was fifteen, living in upstate New York and working as a ticket taker at Storyland, an amusement park where her beautiful best friend, Sils, was Cinderella in a papier-mache pumpkin coach."
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Intimate, grave, character-led and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lorrie Moore
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, ETERNA CADENCIA, Faber & Faber, Limited
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780745130552
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