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The big girls

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.
Publication Date: 1/12/2011
Place of Publication: United States

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Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is the new chief of psychiatry there. Captain Ike Bradshaw is the corrections officer who wants her. And Angie, an ambitious Hollywood starlet contacted by Helen, is intent on nothing but fame. Drawing these four characters together in a story of shocking and disturbing revelations, "The Big Girls "is an electrifying novel about the anarchy of families, the sometimes destructive power of maternal instinct, and the cult of celebrity.

"Devastatingly accurate.... Engrossing and beautifully rendered."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"The most unflinching, graphically sexual, violent, literary female fiction writer alive. . . . Susanna Moore writes the way Frida Kahlo painted."
--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
""The Big Girls" carries a voyeuristic charge, the confessions so intimate you feel embarrassed for looking, but the whip-smart narration makes it impossible to turn away."
--"The" "Plain Dealer"
"Hypnotizing. . . . A remarkable feat."
--"The Washington Post Book World"

Title: The big girls
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Contributors: By (author) Susanna Moore

ISBN 13: 9781400076109
ISBN 10: 1400076102

Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.
Publication Date: 1/12/2011
Place of Publication: New York, United States
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 813.54 (DC21)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Thickness: 18mm
Weight: 381g