| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 13 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Jorjeana Marie. |
| Summary |
Just like Beauty is a brilliantly inventive debut novel that blends adolescent angst and cultural satire and is set in a disconcertingly not-so-distant future complete with high-tech food, mutant animals, socially sanctioned violence, and despoliation of the planet. This surprising combination gives author Lisa Lerner a fresh and funny way to explore family dynamics, gender roles, competitiveness, and the "beauty myth" in a society that keeps reinventing them anew for each generation. A plague of mutant grasshoppers is invading American suburbia. An underground suicide cult is gaining national prominence. Gangs of teenage boys with blow torches run amok. But what really has fourteen-year-old Edie Stein distracted from her town's annual Feminine Woman of Conscience Pageant is Lana Grimaldi, the sexy girl next door. How does a feminine woman of conscience deal with her? Just like Beauty offers a comically trenchant look at where our culture is heading and the absurdity that passes for ordinary. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Suburban life -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Bildungsromans.
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Dystopias.
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| Added Author |
Marie, Jorjeana. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982453718 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982453710 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11244988 |
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