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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 tutor’s innumerable
SAT flashcards. Her personal trainer’s “fifty-seven pounds
overweight” assessment. And the endless reading assignments
from her English teacher, Mr. Nagel. When Nagel reports to
her parents that she has answered “What is your favorite
book” with “Never met one I liked,” they decide to fix what
he calls her “intellectual impoverishment.” They will
commission a book to be written just for her—one she’ll have
to love—that will impress her teacher and the whole town of
Fox Glen with their family’s devotion to the arts. They will
be patrons— 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,
Carley’s best friend and Fox Glen’s 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 McEnroy—author of a failed
meta-novel about Odysseus’ failed journey home through the
Internet—into their mansion to write Carley’s book, Carley’s
sole interest in the project is to distract Hunter from
drinking and give them something to share. But as Hunter’s
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 stories—those 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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