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Dutton Adult
May 2009
On Sale: May 14, 2009
Featuring: Carley Wells
400 pages
ISBN: 0525951148
EAN: 9780525951148
Hardcover
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Literature and Fiction Literary
Fall in love with reading all over again.
To Carley Wells, words are the enemy. Her tutorβs innumerable SAT flashcards. Her personal trainerβs βfifty-seven pounds overweightβ assessment. And the endless reading assignments from her English teacher, Mr. Nagel. When Nagel reports to her parents that she has answered βWhat is your favorite bookβ with βNever met one I liked,β they decide to fix what he calls her βintellectual impoverishment.β They will commission a book to be written just for herβone sheβll have to loveβthat will impress her teacher and the whole town of Fox Glen with their familyβs devotion to the arts. They will be patronsβ the Medicis of Long Island. They will buy their daughter The Love Of Reading.
Impossible though it is for Carley to imagine loving books, she is in love with a young bibliophile who cares about them more than anything. Anything, that is, but a good bottle of scotch. Hunter Cay, Carleyβs best friend and Fox Glenβs resident golden boy, is becoming a stranger to her lately as he drowns himself in F. Scott Fitzgerald, booze, and Vicodin.
When the Wellses move writer Bree McEnroyβauthor of a failed meta-novel about Odysseusβ failed journey home through the Internetβinto their mansion to write Carleyβs book, Carleyβs sole interest in the project is to distract Hunter from drinking and give them something to share. But as Hunterβs behavior becomes erratic and dangerous, she finds herself increasingly drawn into the fictional world Bree has created, and begins to understand for the first time the power of storiesβthose we read, those we want to believe in, and most of all, those we tell ourselves about ourselves. Stories powerful enough to destroy a person. Or save her.
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