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Lemon
Cordelia Strube
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Description for Lemon
Paperback. Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 371.
Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize! Shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award! Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she's never met, her adopted father's suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principal who hasn't left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protege, and two friends, the school tramp and a depressed poet. Figuring the numbers are against her, Lemon just can't be bothered trying to fit in. She spurns fashion, television, and even the mall. She reads Mary Wollstonecraft and gets pissed off that Jane ... Read more
Longlisted for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize! Shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award! Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she's never met, her adopted father's suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principal who hasn't left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protege, and two friends, the school tramp and a depressed poet. Figuring the numbers are against her, Lemon just can't be bothered trying to fit in. She spurns fashion, television, and even the mall. She reads Mary Wollstonecraft and gets pissed off that Jane ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452202
SKU
V9781552452202
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Cordelia Strube
Born and raised in Montreal, Cordelia Strube trained as an actress, moving to Toronto in the '80s. She turned to writing plays for stage and radio, and in 1987 won the CBC Literary Competition for her play Mortal. She has also won the Toronto Arts Foundation Protege Award and been shortlisted for the Prix Italia, the Books In Canada First ... Read more
Reviews for Lemon
'Bitingly funny ... In introducing readers to the indomitable Lemon, Strube has taken us on a remarkable trip
part literary kaleidoscope, part emotional roller coaster
into the life and mind of a young girl searching for a love she can't quite bring herself to believe in.'
National Post '[Cordelia Strube is] Canada's best bet to succeed Alice ... Read more
part literary kaleidoscope, part emotional roller coaster
into the life and mind of a young girl searching for a love she can't quite bring herself to believe in.'
National Post '[Cordelia Strube is] Canada's best bet to succeed Alice ... Read more