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Description for Mathilda Savitch
Hardcover. Clean copy in very good condition.
A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a girl with a sharp and mischievous voice of her own -- and her quest to discover the truth about her sister's death 'I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, it's night, not yet time for bed but too late to be outside, and the two of them reading reading reading with their eyes moving like the lights inside a copy machine. When I was helping put the dishes in the washer tonight, I ... Read more
A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a girl with a sharp and mischievous voice of her own -- and her quest to discover the truth about her sister's death 'I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, it's night, not yet time for bed but too late to be outside, and the two of them reading reading reading with their eyes moving like the lights inside a copy machine. When I was helping put the dishes in the washer tonight, I ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers London
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007322220
SKU
KNH0012018
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Victor Lodato
Victor Lodato is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships and has won numerous awards for his plays, including an award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. This is his first novel. He lives in Tuscon, Arizona and New York.
Reviews for Mathilda Savitch
'!the tension crackles as Mathilda's savage monologue rattles on, constantly surprising and heartbreakingly funny' Psychologies 'There cannot be a recent portrait of downbeat, defiant adolescence that is as convincing as that of Lodato's eponymous anti-heroine' Guardian 'Constantly surprising and heartbreakingly funny' Psychologies