Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman
Prepare to fall in love with this "wry and engaging" (Booklist) young adult romance as it rekindles your own fervor for life, friendship, and the wonders of true love."When someone asks for a reading suggestion, Enthusiasm is the first word off my tongue."-Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight Saga
"Enthusiasm, like Pride and Prejudice, bubbles over with romantic misunderstandings and comic confusion."-The New York Times Book Review
There is little more likely to exasperate a person of sense than finding herself tied by affection and habit to an Enthusiast.
Julie's best friend, Ashleigh, veers wildly from one obsession to the next, dragging Julie along on her crazy schemes. Then Ashleigh picks a new obsession, Jane Austen's great love story, Pride and Prejudice, which just so happens to be Julie's one and only passion. With Ashleigh's encouragement, Julie finds herself sneaking into a dance at an all-boys' prep school clad in a vintage frock and ready to dance the quadrille. But when both girls fall for the handsome and gallant Grandison Parr, Julie will have to choose between loyalty and love. Or will Ashleigh's embarrassing antics drive their Mr. Darcy away before Julie gets the chance?
Polly Shulman has written for The New York Times, Discover, Newsday, Salon, Slate, Scientific American, Archaeology, and The Village Voice, among others, about edible jellyfish, Egyptian tombs, infinity, blind dates, books, brains, centenarians, circuses, and film adaptations of Jane Austen novels. She edits news stories for Science magazine about fossils, meteors, the seas, the weather, and the planets. She collects Victorian hair jewelry, bakes chocolate cakes with cayenne pepper, and reads forgotten novels with frontispieces. She attended Hunter College High School, Hampshire College Summer Study in Mathematics, and Yale University, where she majored in mathematics. She's never tried to crash a dance, but she did write a sonnet-style proof for math class in tenth grade. She was born and raised in New York City, where she currently resides with her husband Andrew Nahem and their parakeet Olive.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780142409350 |
| ISBN 10 | 0142409359 |
| Title | Enthusiasm |
| Author | Polly Shulman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2007-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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