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Plume
August 2010
On Sale: July 27, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0452296099
EAN: 9780452296091
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Fiction
A playful, witty, and remarkably accomplished debut novel
about how reading can save your life. Asked to name her
favorite book, sixteen-year-old Carley Wells
answers, "never met one I liked." Her parents are
horrified and decide to commission a book to be written
just for her. They will be the Medicis of Long Island and
buy their daughter The Love of Reading. At first, Carley's
sole interest in the project is to distract Hunter, the
young bibliophile she adores. But as Hunter's behavior
becomes increasingly erratic, Carley begins to understand
the importance of stories-and how they are powerful enough
to destroy a person. Or save her. Tanya Egan Gibson's
debut novel is an irresistible work of metafiction that
dazzlingly embeds a book within the book, and boasts an
unforgettably fresh narrator whose journey towards
embracing literature will make you fall in love with
reading all over again.
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