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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... walked away . It was intoxicating to realize I could say no to her . A few days later when she asked , “ Did you clean litter boxes ? " I said , “ By god I did not clean the litter boxes . " The truth is I had cleaned them but I was ...
... walked away . It was intoxicating to realize I could say no to her . A few days later when she asked , “ Did you clean litter boxes ? " I said , “ By god I did not clean the litter boxes . " The truth is I had cleaned them but I was ...
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... walked home that night , arm in arm , ostensibly happy , but inwardly one of us ( me ) seething . Already I felt big with book the way a woman feels big with child . Was there room in this relationship for the two of us ? " Lars , I ...
... walked home that night , arm in arm , ostensibly happy , but inwardly one of us ( me ) seething . Already I felt big with book the way a woman feels big with child . Was there room in this relationship for the two of us ? " Lars , I ...
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... walked , the little glass loaner bowl close to his chest , as if he had another ten years to make the journey from the door to ... " Hurry up then , " I said . “ You won't drop it . I was about to close up . " Goldfish returns are the ...
... walked , the little glass loaner bowl close to his chest , as if he had another ten years to make the journey from the door to ... " Hurry up then , " I said . “ You won't drop it . I was about to close up . " Goldfish returns are the ...
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