Slicker by Lucy Jackson

Slicker by Lucy Jackson

Even life in the greatest city in the world can sometimes feel like a little too much. For this New Yorker, running away to the Heartland may be just the antidote.

When New York City native Desirée Christian-Cohen flees her sometime-boyfriend, unhappy mother, Nina (who's recently learned her soon-to-be ex-husband Patrick is gay), and failing grandfather, she picks the flight plan by randomly dropping her finger on a map and hitting: Honey Creek, Kansas, population 1,623. And if being a "tourist" in Honey Creek weren't noticeable enough, try hanging out in the Sweet Tooth luncheonette, where you're referred to as "half a Jew." Wary of , but wanting to, fit in with the local populace, Desirée is forced to defend herself and define herself in a world that feels vastly different from her own. Her Yale boyfriends were never like Bobby McVicar, the son of two ageing hippies, who finds all he needs in his pinprick of a hometown. And never--even as an only child of typically doting Manhattan parents--has anyone paid so much attention to Desirée.

Over one surprising, transformative and sometimes very funny summer, Desirée Christian-Cohen, member-in-good-standing of the Self Esteem Generation, discovers how an impulsive escape from home and family turns out to be much more than that.

Lucy Jackson (a pseudonym) is an acclaimed short story writer and novelist. Her last novel was a New York Times Notable Book. Jackson's fiction has appeared in The NewYorker, Best American Short Stories and many other magazines and anthologies. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780312573591
ISBN 10	0312573596
Title	Slicker
Author	Lucy Jackson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St. Martins Press-3PL
Year published	2011-07-19
Number of pages	272
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