The Last of Her Kind

✍ Scribed by Nunez, Sigrid

• Book ID: 109931238
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 291 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781429944977

✦ Synopsis

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year

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Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for...