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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... going to change my life . " But it's useless to explain the prospect of personal change . Thousands of dollars in student loans to major in philosophy , and now she unlocked apartments every day in order to meet the superficial needs of ...
... going to change my life . " But it's useless to explain the prospect of personal change . Thousands of dollars in student loans to major in philosophy , and now she unlocked apartments every day in order to meet the superficial needs of ...
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... going to fall all over myself checking the hermit crabs ' bedding for fungus gnats . " I told myself I was a circulation librarian , not a cleaning service , and I consoled myself with small liberties - being slow to feed the fish , for ...
... going to fall all over myself checking the hermit crabs ' bedding for fungus gnats . " I told myself I was a circulation librarian , not a cleaning service , and I consoled myself with small liberties - being slow to feed the fish , for ...
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... going to . " “ Yeah , that's what Rena said , too . But now she's all caught up in some dutiful tome on global warming . " I pulled Treasure Island out of my backpack and nudged his plate aside , so that the volume lay before him on the ...
... going to . " “ Yeah , that's what Rena said , too . But now she's all caught up in some dutiful tome on global warming . " I pulled Treasure Island out of my backpack and nudged his plate aside , so that the volume lay before him on the ...
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