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LoveReading Says
November 2013 Debut of the Month.
Thea, with twin Sam, grew up in Florida in the 1920s amid wealth and security. Their slightly older cousin, by two years, Georgie spends a large part of his childhood with the twins. Then something happens between Georgie and Thea and she is packed off to boarding school. Puberty, experimentation, sex appeal, boys … this is the centre of bitchy school gossip, oh, and the love of horses. Thea, well aware of her sex appeal, manipulates and strangely, wins. This is partly a young read with sex and partly an interesting insight into coming-of-age in the 1920s.
Sarah Broadhurst
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The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls Synopsis
Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess; where young women are indoctrinated in the importance of 'female education' yet expected to be married by twenty-one; a world so rarified as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots...
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| ISBN: |
9780755395194 |
| Publication date: |
7th November 2013 |
| Author: |
Anton DiSclafani |
| Publisher: |
Tinder Press an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
416 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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'I fell completely under the spell of Anton DiSclafani's amazing first novel and was gripped by its lush and dreamy evocations of Southern decorum, family secrets, and boarding school rituals. DiSclafani is wildly talented, and this is a sexy, suspenseful, gorgeously written book'
Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE
'DiSclafani's pitch-perfect details of time and place effortlessly drew me into this fantastic novel's authentic and alluring world'
Laura Moriarty, author of THE CHAPERONE
'The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is so sexy, smart, and vividly drawn that I was surprised to remember that this novel is Anton DiSclafani's first. With such a big-hearted and atmospheric book, Ms. DiSclafani's talents should be celebrated far and wide'
Lauren Groff, author of ARCADIA
'A fierce and tender portrait of a young woman caught amidst the converging crises of her family, her country, and her own complicated desires... It's a beautiful novel'
Aryn Kyle, author of THE GOD OF ANIMALS
'A clever and compelling coming-of-age novel'
Glamour Magazine
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About Anton DiSclafani
Anton DiSclafani, 30, was raised in northern Florida, where she rode horses, competing nationally. She graduated from Emory University, and received her MFA from Washington University. She currently lives in St. Louis, where she teaches creative writing at Washington University.
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