Treasure Island!!!
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When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novelTreasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?
Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.
Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice-intelligent, perverse, relentlessly self- extricating, and funny.
About this Author
Sara Levine teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her stories have appeared inThe Iowa Review,Nerve,Conjunctions,Necessary Fiction,Sonora Review, and other magazines. She won a 2008 Bridport Prize for Fiction, a Special Mention inThe Pushcart Anthology, and three citations inThe Best American Essays. Her writing has been anthologized inBest of Fence: The First Nine Years andThe Touchstone Anthology of Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present.
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 172
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2011-12-17
Reviews
Praise forTreasure Island!!!
"Levine is a wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice. "Treasure Island!!!" is a rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent."
--New York Times Book Review
"[An] irreverent comic novel of self-empowerment."
--O, The Oprah Magazine
"An absurdist comedy of suburbia."
--The New York Times
"Levine sports an original, brutally witty voice."
--The Washington Post
"I laughed my way through...this addictive little pageturner."
--The Boston Bibliophile
"This highly original, farcical novel will keep you entertained."
--Library Journal
"Levine's subtle insight about the egocentric nature of our society is knife-sharp."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Levine...is a tremendously funny writer."
--Time Out Chicago
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