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Gossip of the Starlings
By Nina de Gramont
Hardback
, 276 pages
(also available in
Paperback)
ISBN: 9781565125650 (1565125657)
Published by Algonquin Books
$22.95(US)
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about Gossip of the Starlings
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.
about Nina de Gramont
Nina de Gramont is the author of the collection Of Cats and Men, which was a Book Sense selection and won a Discovery Award from the New England Booksellers Association. Her fiction has appeared in Seventeen, Nerve, the Harvard Review, Post Road Magazine, and Exquisite Corpse. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and daughter.
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