Hunger Point: A Novel
by Medoff, Jillian
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060391898
- ISBN 13
- 9780060391898
- Seller
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Synopsis
"My parents may love me, but I also know they view me as a houseguest who is turning a weekend stay into an all-expense-paid, lifelong residency, and who (to their horror) constantly forgets to flush the toilet and shut off the lights."Twenty-six-year-old Frannie Hunter has just moved back home. Bright, wry, blunt, and irreverent, she invites you to witness her family's unraveling. Her Harvard-bound sister is anorexic, her mother is having an affair, her father is obsessed with the Food Network, her grandfather wants to plan her wedding (even though she has no fiance, let alone a steady boyfriend), and, to top it off, Frannie is a waitress who wears a dirty duck apron and serves plates of fried cheese to her ex-boyfriend's parents. By turns wickedly funny and heartbreakingly bittersweet, Hunger Point chronicles Frannie's triumph over her own self-destructive tendencies, and offers a powerful exploration of the complex relationships that bind together a contemporary American family. You will never forget Frannie, a "sultry, suburban Holden Caulfield," who critics have called "the most fully realized character to come along in years," (Paper) and you'll never forget Hunger Point, an utterly original novel that stuns with its amazing insights and dazzles with its fresh, distinctive voice.
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- Bookseller
- Book Lovers Warehouse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 158470
- Title
- Hunger Point: A Novel
- Author
- Medoff, Jillian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060391898
- ISBN 13
- 9780060391898
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997-02-01
- X weight
- 28 oz
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