"In Marlena, Julie Buntin revitalizes a classic story making it all her own with sensuous, vibrant prose and a narrator who feels deeply even as she feints certain painful truths about herself. And Julie Buntin, in her raw debut novel, nails it. Like any good novel, the stakes seem higher in Marlena. In this friendship, Cat, age 15, is recently plucked from her home and moved to a trailer park in northern Michigan as a result of her parents’ messy divorce. PRAISE FOR MARLENA “The gifted young writer Julie Buntin has written a novel of deep and exquisite intelligence, humor, and riveting sensitivity. A terrific debut.”–Lorrie Moore “Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight.
"Julie Buntin's debut novel, Marlenajoins a glut of recent novels that pair a retrospective female narrator with an extravagantly charismatic but troubled friend But Marlena, unlike the others, seems to be aware of the complicity of these kinds of stories in perpetuating the mystique of girls who go wrong. Free download or read online Marlena pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in April 4th , and was written by Julie Buntin. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format. The main characters of this fiction, contemporary story are,. The book has been awarded with National Book Critics. Julie Buntin manages within a few words to evoke the firey fatalism of youth and the dreary backdrop of so many nowhere towns. Marlena is not the normal novel fare that I find tempting. Stories of teens and stories of drugs are low on my list - labeled mostly too uninteresting or too sad/silly without consequence, to usually draw me in.
“Julie Buntin’s debut novel, Marlenajoins a glut of recent novels that pair a retrospective female narrator with an extravagantly charismatic but troubled friendBut Marlena,unlike the others, seems to be aware of the complicity of these kinds of stories in perpetuating the mystique of girls who go wrongBuntin vividly captur[es] the slow, blurry creep of intoxication. PRAISE FOR MARLENA “The gifted young writer Julie Buntin has written a novel of deep and exquisite intelligence, humor, and riveting sensitivity. A terrific debut.”–Lorrie Moore “Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight. Free download or read online Marlena pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in April 4th , and was written by Julie Buntin. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format. The main characters of this fiction, contemporary story are.
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