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208 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, PA--a small, conservative Rust Belt town fallen sleepy a decade after the steel industry's collapse. But the year Amy turned ten, everyone in Mercury woke up. That was the year Howard Lotte, Mercury's beloved piano teacher, was accused of committing indiscretions during his lessons. Among the girls questioned, only seven dared to tell the truth that would ostracize them from the community. Amy Jo Burns was one of the girls who lied. Her memoir, CINDERLAND, navigates the impact that lie had on her adolescent years to follow--tracing all the boys she ran from and toward, the girls she betrayed, and the endless performances she put on to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. CINDERLAND is literary memoir of the highest caliber. A slim, searing feat of narrative beauty, it is full of psychologically nuanced grappling, imagery of fire and steel, and eerily universal shadows of adolescence"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Part I. Spotlight -- Prisoner's Dilemma -- Hide and Seek -- Emerge -- Figurante -- Denouement -- Breaking and Entering -- Torch -- Part II. Simon Says -- Sober -- Vanity Fair -- Audition -- Understudy -- Mirror, Mirror -- Part III. All the Prettiest Girls -- Impostor -- Paper Doll -- Origin Story -- Cinderland. |
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Burns, Amy Jo, 1981- -- Childhood and youth.
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Teenage girls -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
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Child sexual abuse -- Pennsylvania.
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Girls -- Abuse of -- Pennsylvania.
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects.
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Truthfulness and falsehood -- Psychological aspects.
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Community life -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th century.
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Pennsylvania -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Pennsylvania -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent.
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| ISBN |
9780807037034 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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0807037036 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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