Pure by Rebbecca Ray

Pure by Rebbecca Ray

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Summary

This coming-of-age debut novel recounts the pains and joys of first love and the end of innocence for the young teenage narrator as she copes with the transition between childhood and adulthood, parents, friends, and the 27-year-old man who transforms her life.

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Pure by Rebbecca Ray

A sensational and accomplished novel that made its young author one of the most talked about in Britain last year, Pure is about fourteen -- the age when you know everything, except when you don't know anything. It's about first love and the end of innocence in all its passion and absurdity. It's about the raw transition between loving your parents as a child and understanding them as an adult. It's about the cool friend for whom everything seems effortless, and the impossibly embarrassing friend you're nice to when your cool friends can't see. It's about the struggle between desire and duty, and about a chance meeting with a twenty-seven-year-old man. And it's about what happens after. Pure has the shocking immediacy that made Less Than Zero so indelible. It evokes the brutalities of adolescence with the lucidity of Two Girls, Fat and Thin. It is sure to establish its author as one of the most remarkable and fearless young writers to emerge in recent years.
Rebbecca Ray is a novelist and the author of A Certain Age and Newfoundland, which was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Commonwealth Prize.
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ISBN 13 9780802137005
ISBN 10 0802137008
Title Pure
Author Rebbecca Ray
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published 2000-07-27
Number of pages 416
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