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Harvest Book Ser.: Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel (2004, Trade Paperback)

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ISBN
9780156030243
Book Title
Like the Red Panda
Book Series
Harvest Book Ser.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Item Length
8.2 in
Publication Year
2004
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Andrea Seigel
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Sagas, General
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Stella Parrish is seventeen, attractive, smart, deeply alienated, and unable to countenance life's absurdities. She is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since her parents OD'd on designer drugs when she was eleven, she has lived with well-meaning but inexperienced foster parents, while her grandfather, her only living relative, tries ever more ingenious ways of committing suicide in his retirement home. Here are the last two weeks of Stella's senior year in Orange County, California: the intensive AP final exams; the childish, celebratory trips; the totemic importance attached to graduation. Beneath Stella's mordantly funny take on her life is the decisiveness with which she disengages from it, planting clues and providing explanations for those who will try to understand the act she is about to commit. With perfect pitch, remarkable wit, and a spare, vivid prose, Stella turns her farewell to suburbia into a wry philosophical inquiry.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0156030241
ISBN-13
9780156030243
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30414715

Product Key Features

Book Title
Like the Red Panda
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Sagas, General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Andrea Seigel
Book Series
Harvest Book Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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0
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Like the Red Panda is debut author Andrea Seigel's brutal answer to the throngs of Chick Lit novels that have inundated book clubs and influenced the big screen over the past decade. Stella Parrish, Seigel's tragic heroine, is 17, extremely wise beyond her years, completely alienated from her peers and her foster family, and determined to kill herself before she arrives at Princeton's gates in the fall. Seigel's task here is difficult--she's created a character of extraordinary depth, given her an unpleasant (at best) mission, and attempted to make her amusing and interesting, all at the same time. In many ways, the author's success should be widely applauded, even if she falls short on occasion. Like the Red Panda enjoys its greatest success when Stella is commenting on the people around her. Her wry observations about her cranky old grandfather, her pot-smoking classmates in AP English, and her brilliant, unmotivated drug-dealing ex-boyfriend paint an equally amusing and insightful portrait of suburban life in America. When describing the temple-going practices of her jumpy and awkward foster parents, Stella explains that services are held on Sunday morning instead of Saturday, "mostly so everyone could be on the same worship schedule as their Christian friends. This benefited cross-religion plan-making on the weekends." When Seigel strays from witty observations like these, the novel has a tendency to lose its quirky appeal and simply becomes a tale of disenchanted youth. Thankfully, Like the Red Panda delivers more laughs than tears, and rewards readers with a unique blend of one-part teenage angst mixed with two-parts comedic wit., Stella Parrish [is] one of the most startling narrators to come down the fiction pike in a while. Highly recommended.
Lccn
2003-017164
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Age Range
14
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
Fic
Grade to
Twelfth Grade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3619.E424l55 2004
Copyright Date
2004

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  • by ibarr-rau
    Mar 13, 2015

    Bored but nice

    Nice book, boring, predictable, kind of depressing, but a book is a book and read is good for health

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