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There is no escaping the heat, grime, or glittering promise of violence of athenss underbelly, but the bond between three young drifters is infused with moments of transcendence. Capek wrote the book in the 1920s, and the work presaged two of my favorite authors, george. She has written for the new york times, marie claire, salon, and national public radio, and is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including a folio prize nomination, and a sundance institute global filmmaking award. Johns university, goddard college, columbia university, and oxford university. One day, their beautiful fifteenyearold daughter, maribel, sustains a terrible. In cara hoffman s debut novel, so much pretty, this jarring disconnect is one of the storys most intriguing undercurrents. Dana spiotta, national book awardnominated author of stone arabia so much pretty unravels a narrative thats rich with suspense and moral complexity.
Five months after she disappeared, wendy whites body is found in a ditch just off one of haedens main roads. Most authors settle for a deus ex machina, but so much pretty gets you there believably and organically. Delicately balancing two story lines, cara hoffman dramatizes a death and a disappearance. So much pretty by cara hoffman 2011, hardcover for sale.
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