Gossip of the Starlings | Nina de Gramont | An amazing story that will take you back

Gossip of the Starlings | Nina de Gramont | A Great Book

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Gossip of the Star...

	Gossip of the Starlings Nina de Gramont Algonquin Books, 2008 - 276 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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When Catherine Morrow is admitted to the Esther Percy School for Girls, it's on the condition that she reform her ways. But that's before the charismatic and beautiful Skye Butterfield, daughter of the famous Senator Butterfield, chooses Catherine for her best friend. Skye is a young woman hell-bent on a trajectory of self-destruction, and she doesn't care who is taken down with her. No matter the transgression?a stolen credit card, a cocaine binge, an affair with a teacher, an accident that precipitates the end of Catherine's promising riding career?Catherine can neither resist Skye's spell nor stop her downward spiral.

De Gramont's chilling novel is a portrait of an adolescent girl so thoroughly seduced by a peer that she willingly follows her to ruin. Caught in a world that is both appealing and astonishing, these young women are sexual beings with the minds of teenagers: willful, selfish, daring, and cruel?all the while believing they're utterly indestructible.

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An amazing story that will take you back

This book reminded me so vividly of what it felt like to be a teenager. The friends you can't live without; the amazing drama that takes place every day. The wealth and the location are immaterial. This story is about the incredible power of friendships and the struggle to be good. It was a beautiful and very emotional story that I read in two days.

A Great Book

I really enjoyed this book. Nina De Gramont captures the desperate, intense emotions that overwhelm all of us (male, female, rich, and poor) as we struggle through adolescence. A great book for anyone who enjoys a compelling story, beautifully told. Read it now, before the movie comes out!

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my summer lesson

"Gossip..." is the third book I've read this summer that takes place in a setting not familiar to me, nor previously of interest. deGramont's book was recommended to me by a "horse person" who insisted I read it. I have to say: the prose is so flawless, so graceful, that you hardly feel yourself moving through the pages. The last third of the book seemed to accelerate for me, the pages seemed riper, more poetic as the tale moved forward -- not sure if this was from falling in love with the language, or that the story and characters sneaked into my psyche and ruffled my feathers (!!) -- I just know that I found myself racing to reach the reward of a perfect ending. This book was a very pleasant surprise. I've since ordered and started reading deGramont's collection of short fiction "Of Cats and Men" -- haunting, sneaky, dark little tales that prove this writer can jump genres like a purebred. Loving them!

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Could not put it down

I usually read something dull to put myself to sleep at night, but after reading most of this book on a plane ride, I refused to switch to my usual fare. It brought back highschool and the incredible intensity of my teenage friendships. de Gramont's prose illuminates those heady moments and secret bonds that were so all consuming. I thoroughly enjoyed this finely tuned page-turner!

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