My dark Vanessa : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0062978721
- ISBN: 0062978721
- ISBN: 9780062978721
- ISBN: 0062978721 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780062978721 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780062978721
- Physical Description: 561 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Harper Large Print edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Asked to help defend an older high-school English teacher with whom she had an affair at age 15, Vanessa struggles to choose between her romantic teen illusions and harrowing adult perceptions. |
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Subject: | Teenage girls Fiction High schools Fiction Students Fiction Teachers Fiction Teacher-student relationships Fiction Sex crimes Fiction Large type books |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bethel Public Library | LARGE TYPE RUSSELL (Text) | 34030145612658 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | LP FIC RUSSELL,K (PBK) (Text) | 34026143970643 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | RUSSELL Kate (Text) | 34013145770387 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
New Milford Public Library | LP F RUSSE (Text) | 34021138838483 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
My Dark Vanessa : A Novel
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Summary
My Dark Vanessa : A Novel
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power." --The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "A lightning rod . . . brilliantly crafted."--The Washington Post A most anticipated book by The New York Times * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Marie Claire * Elle * Harper's Bazaar * Bustle * Newsweek * New York Post * Esquire * Real Simple * The Sunday Times * The Guardian Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer. 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager--and who professed to worship only her--may be far different from what she has always believed? Alternating between Vanessa's present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.