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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... heard about it or seen the movie or maybe eaten in the restaurant Long John Silver's - is a classic of boys ' adventure fiction , and almost immediately was recognized as a masterpiece when it was published in 1883. The funny thing is ...
... heard about it or seen the movie or maybe eaten in the restaurant Long John Silver's - is a classic of boys ' adventure fiction , and almost immediately was recognized as a masterpiece when it was published in 1883. The funny thing is ...
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... heard I was looking for meaningful work , sent along the phone number of a “ lady seeking an assistant . ” I was to meet Ms. Wang at The Donut Hole and , after scanning the tables for the Chinese - American equivalent of my matronly ...
... heard I was looking for meaningful work , sent along the phone number of a “ lady seeking an assistant . ” I was to meet Ms. Wang at The Donut Hole and , after scanning the tables for the Chinese - American equivalent of my matronly ...
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... heard Lars out , of course , but in the end I dismissed his worries . It's what Dr. Livesey would have done . As I grew more confident about what boldness meant , I began to see that the real problem was I had been letting Nancy define ...
... heard Lars out , of course , but in the end I dismissed his worries . It's what Dr. Livesey would have done . As I grew more confident about what boldness meant , I began to see that the real problem was I had been letting Nancy define ...
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... heard a sound that brought my heart into my mouth - the door chime chirp , alerting me that we had a patron . As I came out of the back room , I saw it was a boy come to return a goldfish . He was about ten years old and walked , the ...
... heard a sound that brought my heart into my mouth - the door chime chirp , alerting me that we had a patron . As I came out of the back room , I saw it was a boy come to return a goldfish . He was about ten years old and walked , the ...
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