| Colony Girl Contributor(s): Rayfiel, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312267193 ISBN-13: 9780312267193 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony. Fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both. Boldly she gets her first job as a highway work crew flagman, falls in love with a local teen Adonis and his widowed father, and plots to intervene in her best friend's arranged marriage. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99020042 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.82 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Iowa - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony. Smart and precocious fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both. So she gets her first job as a highway work crew flagman, falls in love with a local teen Adonis and his widowed father, and plots to intervene in her best friend's arranged marriage. As Thomas Rayfiel's Colony Girl races to an unexpected climax, Eve finds herself trying to save the colony at the same time as she struggles to break free of its ominous control. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rayfiel, Thomas: - Thomas Rayfiel is the author of Split Levels, which "never stops entertaining or disturbing" (San Francisco Chronicle). He lives in Brooklyn with his family. |