**"A playful story with heart and teasing goodwill." βPublishers Weekly for The Unplanned Life of Josie Hale** **Readers of Sally Thorne and Beth O'Leary will love Ellie Reed's wild adventure.** **Ellie Reed's self-esteem can't take it anymore...** Ellie has just about had enough of her family's
No One Said a Word
β Scribed by Paula Varsavsky
- Book ID
- 110711140
- Publisher
- Wings Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 278 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781609402709
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
It is the late 1970s, and Argentina is wracked by the worst excesses of its βDirty Wars" as thousands have disappeared or have been tortured and murdered by a dying dictatorship. Luz Goldman, on the other hand, lives in a Buenos Aires bubble of wealth and privilege where such horrors are simply ignored. Luz is precocious yet solipsistic, rich yet disaffected. She and her friends spend their allowances on expensive drugs, their unfettered days having casual sex. Written in stark language that echoes the unsentimental, bored mind of a young teen, this novel highlights a generations need to ignore the realities of a politically disturbed Latin American country.
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Emerging from the author's college notebooks, Dear No One is a collection of poetry and prose for no one in particular. Inspired by real and fictional love and heartbreak, the collection is an ode to the famous "you". Dedicated to no one and everyone.
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