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001			ocn967500624
003			OCoLC
005			20190305115040.0
008			161230s2017 nyu d 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780525498841 _q(paperback : large print)
020			_a0525498842 _q(paperback : large print)
020			_a9781635461152 _q(bound)
020			_a1635461154 _q(bound)
029	1		_aAU@ _b000060666731
035			_a(OCoLC)967500624 _z(OCoLC)1001542095
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050	1	4	_aPS3620.A454 _bM9 2017b
082	0	4	_a813/.6 _223
100			_aTallent, Gabriel, _eauthor. _933204
245	1	0	_aMy absolute darling / _cGabriel Tallent.
250			_aFirst large print edition
260			_aNew York _bRandom House Large Print _c2017.
300			_a550 pages (large print) ; _c24 cm
520			_aA brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
650		0	_aFriendship _vFiction. _92101
650		0	_aTeenagers _vFiction. _95994
655		0	_91980 _aAdventure fiction. _2lcgft
655		0	_93726 _aLarge type books.
650		0	_916974 _aOrphans _vFiction.
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