How Perfect is That
โ Scribed by Bird, Sarah
- Book ID
- 109728472
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 240 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307269317
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Blythe Young--a wannabe Texas princess, a heroine as plucky, driven, and desperate as Vanity Fair 's Becky Sharp--is plummeting precipitously from up- to downstairs, banging her head on every step of the Austin social ladder as she falls. Not unlike the country as a whole, Blythe has surrendered to a multitude of dubious moral choices and is now facing the disastrous consequences: bankruptcy, public humiliation, a teensy fondness for the pharmaceuticals, and no Pap smear for ten years. But worst of all, she is forced to move back into the fleabag co-op boardinghouse where she lived when she was a student at the University of Texas.
Though Blythe cares much more about the ravaged state of her nails, and how to get the ingredients for Code Warrior--Blythe's proprietary blend of Stoli, Ativan, and Red Bull that keeps everything in focus--her soul is hanging in the balance. Only when she is in danger of losing the one friend who's been her true moral center is she...
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