Treasure Island!!!Europa Editions, 7. des. 2011 - 172 síður A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure: “A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent” (The New York Times). When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson’s book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she’d originally planned. Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice—“insane, hilarious, and irreverent” (Alice Sebold). “Highly original . . . will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator.” —Library Journal “A hoot.” —Kirkus Reviews |
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... fact the book was doing something to me . I'm twenty - five years old and this happened on a Monday when I didn't ... fact that he called himself ' Dougie ' explained everything about Rena and Dougie Thomas . That and the fact that they ...
... fact the book was doing something to me . I'm twenty - five years old and this happened on a Monday when I didn't ... fact that he called himself ' Dougie ' explained everything about Rena and Dougie Thomas . That and the fact that they ...
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Sara Levine. fact that they'd met at a Christmas caroling party he single- handedly organized ; but I never tell friends their boyfriends are probably gay , so I let the matter drop . Rena is a close friend ; she knows firsthand my ...
Sara Levine. fact that they'd met at a Christmas caroling party he single- handedly organized ; but I never tell friends their boyfriends are probably gay , so I let the matter drop . Rena is a close friend ; she knows firsthand my ...
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... fact , it was the part where Billy Bones shows up at the inn where Jim is living a quiet life with his parents : " This is a handy cove and a pleasant sittyated grog - shop ... Here you , matey , bring up alongside and help up my chest ...
... fact , it was the part where Billy Bones shows up at the inn where Jim is living a quiet life with his parents : " This is a handy cove and a pleasant sittyated grog - shop ... Here you , matey , bring up alongside and help up my chest ...
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... fact that she made no effort to build a more varied collection of animals . Before my time , she'd set up a super - size drop - off kennel in the parking lot for discards and , if anything , the Library had become the town's dumping ...
... fact that she made no effort to build a more varied collection of animals . Before my time , she'd set up a super - size drop - off kennel in the parking lot for discards and , if anything , the Library had become the town's dumping ...
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... fact , in Japan , that's how literature is studied . People read one book all year . It's only the stupid Americans who skitter around . ” " Who reads one book a year ? ” " Japanese literature majors . " He looked skeptical . " I'll ask ...
... fact , in Japan , that's how literature is studied . People read one book all year . It's only the stupid Americans who skitter around . ” " Who reads one book a year ? ” " Japanese literature majors . " He looked skeptical . " I'll ask ...
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