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The Torn Skirt
by Rebecca Godfrey
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for sixteen years. . . . And then as I turned sixteen and stopped smiling, the fever returned though my skin stayed pale and sure, showing no sign of the heat inside me. At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy. One of the most provocative and original coming-of-age novels to appear in a long time, The Torn Skirt is a lyrical story that soars with an honest understanding of the teenage condition.
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| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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The book was in perfect shape and arrived very quickly!
Would order again from this seller.
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| Intriguing. |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I'm 27, about ten years older than most of the characters in this book. I feel as though it would be much more relevant to someone in their mid-late teens, but I still throughly enjoyed it. I imagine that this would be a "cool" book to be reading if I were still in high school, going on an adventure with the protagonist, Sara, as she goes out into the world and loses a lot of her "innocence". I will admit that, while the book does seem like a noble and accurate portrayal of what it's like to be a misfit, the essence of growing up during adolescence. Very little if any of this stuff happened to me personally... but it was still quite powerful.
It's written very much like a diary, told from a first person's point of view. It's a subtle reminder that some misguided youths face these sorts of things everyday. Some by choice, some not by choice. And nothing bad has to happen to someone in order for them to travel down this path. Sara has a loving father, she herself doesn't start out as a rampant, promiscuous, drug addict. She meets characters along the way and gets thrown into this world overnight... perhaps as a means of finding herself.
An easy read, a page turner. I'd recommend this book to just about anyone.
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| Couldn't put it down! |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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The only reasons I didn't give this book 5 stars is because sometimes the author tried too hard to use slang and teenage stereotypes. I'm sure she meant for it to add to the plot or characters but it almost seemed as if she didn't remember what being an teenage girl felt like.
Other than that, I loved this book!
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| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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I was kind of dissapointed. I read all the reviews and the idea sounded wonderful, but when I started reading it I was a little disappointed. Ever have one of those books in the corner that you start and you keep thinking "I want to finish it.." but you never do? That's the authors fault, not yours. I remember one part where Justine first meets her, and she is suddenly asking the main character if she wants to go to a crazy party with her, out of nowhere. Just seems really unrealistic, and when you read it you feel as if your blind to something, like the character is looking at the ground 80 percent of the time, and looks up every once in a while.
Sorry, i really wanted to like this book but found that I couldn't.
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| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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good book, very interesting. I had to re-read it because I got alittle lost but that might have been because of my one year old!
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