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Harvest Books
April 2004
On Sale: April 5, 2004
Featuring: Daniel Lorry; Ainsley Cleveland; Stella Parrish
288 pages
ISBN: 0156030241
EAN: 9780156030243
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Young Adult
Stella Parrish is seventeen, attractive, smart, deeply
alienated, and unable to countenance life's absurdities. She
is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since her
parents OD'd on designer drugs when she was eleven, she has
lived with well-meaning but inexperienced foster parents,
while her grandfather, her only living relative, tries ever
more ingenious ways of committing suicide in his retirement
home. Here are the last two weeks of Stella's senior year in
Orange County, California: the intensive AP final exams; the
childish, celebratory trips; the totemic importance attached
to graduation. Beneath Stella's mordantly funny take on her
life is the decisiveness with which she disengages from it,
planting clues and providing explanations for those who will
try to understand the act she is about to commit. With
perfect pitch, remarkable wit, and a spare, vivid prose,
Stella turns her farewell to suburbia into a wry
philosophical inquiry.
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