Swanna in Love

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Product Details
Price
$29.95  $27.85
Publisher
Akashic Books, Ltd.
Publish Date
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.8 X 8.1 X 1.6 inches | 0.9 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781636141633

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About the Author

Jennifer Belle is the author of four critically acclaimed, widely translated novels, including Going Down, for which she was named best debut novelist of the year by Entertainment Weekly, and High Maintenance, a national bestseller. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Independent magazine, Ms., Harper's Bazaar, Black Book, and many anthologies. She lives in New York City.

Reviews
Swanna in Love is an addictive read, a book as genuinely funny as it is transgressive. Jennifer Belle captures the bravado and vulnerability of adolescence in a voice that jumps off the first page and ventures into some dangerous territory.--Tom Perrotta, author of Tracy Flick Can't Win
Oh, how I loved the whip-smart Swanna Swain. I loved the way she effortlessly lied to people. I love how much she wanted things, good and bad. With Swanna in Love, Jennifer Belle has given us the other side of Nabokov's Lolita--the misunderstood teenage temptress who desperately wants an ice cream sandwich, a comfortable bed to sleep in. Love. Sometimes, it hurts what happens to her. I inhaled this book.--Marcy Dermansky, author of Hurricane Girl
Only Jennifer Belle could write a character like the utterly original and hilariously fierce Swanna, who navigates her way out of the benign neglect of an eighties New York City post-divorce childhood with her beloved brother in tow--a lifetime of growth and change--in the course of a summer. Swanna in Love is a coming-of-age novel unlike anything I've ever read--beautiful, funny, and heartbreakingly true. I loved, and believed, every word of it.--Laura Zigman, author of Small World
Utterly delightful. By turns deeply funny and profoundly moving. The most pitch-perfect portrait of adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye. I loved this novel so!--Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
A collection of letters invites readers into the prolific author's life and thoughts . . . An interesting barometer of Oates' development as a writer over thirty years.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
Whip-smart dialogue and a convincing teenage perspective add heft to this comic novel. Belle breaks hearts with the story of Swanna's first love.-- "Publishers Weekly"
This book is incredible...Hysterically funny and dark.--Robert Siegel, creator of Welcome to Chippendales
Stranded in Vermont with a neglectful mother and her boyfriend, Swanna, a precocious 14-year-old, pursues a married man whom she sees as her ticket back to New York.-- "New York Times Book Review"
With the publication of Swanna in Love from Akashic Books, author Jennifer Belle presents a kind of inverse Lolita that deftly explores adolescent desire from the girl's point of view. Original, hilarious, wildly shocking and iconoclastic, Swanna in Love is an inherently fascinating, compulsive page turner of a novel that is highly recommended for community and college/university library Contemporary Literary Fiction collections.-- "Midwest Book Review"