Mathilda Savitch
Lodato, Victor
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, its 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 broke a plate. I said sorry Ma it slipped. But it didnt slip, thats how I am sometimes, and I want to be worse . . .Awful is easy if you make it your one and only.Fear doesnt come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look right at the things nobody else can bring themselves to mention: for example, the fact that her beloved older sister is dead, pushed in front of a train by a man who is still on the loose. But after a year of spying and provocations, shes no closer to the truth than she was the day it happened. When Mathilda finally cracks Helens e-mail password, a secret life opens up, one that swiftly draws her into a world of clouded motives and strange emotion. Somewhere in it lies the key to waking her family up from their dream of grief. To cross into that underworld and see what her sister saw, she has to risk everything that matters to her.Mathilda Savitch is furious, awkward, and tender; Mathilda Savitch is a compelling page-turner and the debut of an extraordinary novelistic talent.
AUTHOR BIO
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 Tucson, Arizona, and New York City.
BOOK REVIEWS
From page one, the outrageous, pitch-perfect voice of this book grabs you up and wont let go. A bravura performance. Mary Karr, author of The Liars Club and Cherry
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374204004
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374204006
Dewey Decimal: 813/.6
Library of Congress: 2009004719
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 292
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