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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100618651144

ISBN-139780618651146

eBay Product ID (ePID)48411160

Product Key Features

Book TitleSave Your Own

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Lgbt / Lesbian, Literary, Humorous / General

Publication Year2006

GenreFiction

AuthorElisabeth Brink

Book Series. Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-024017

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A brutally honest and truly funny first novel by a writer of immense talent." -Peter Orner, author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikonga, "A smashing debut -- hilarious, smart, and charming...One of the most original characters I've encountered in recent fiction..."--Stephen McCauley, author of Object of My Affection and The Man of the House., "Sly, inventive, filled with irony and laughs and truth." -Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales and High-Wire Moon., "This inventive debut doesn't imitate the traditional British academic comedy but, rather, forges an identity all its own." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg is a romantic heroine unlike any other...Save Your Own is a keeper." USA Today "Elisabeth Brink hooks the reader...and we start to pull for [Gillian] in this colorful 'ugly duckling to swan' story." Boston Globe "A smashing debut -- hilarious, smart, and charming...One of the most original characters I've encountered in recent fiction..."--Stephen McCauley, author of Object of My Affection and The Man of the House. "Sly, inventive, filled with irony and laughs and truth." -Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales and High-Wire Moon. "A brutally honest and truly funny first novel by a writer of immense talent." -Peter Orner, author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikonga "Ultra-funny, super-sexy, and wickedly smart, with a philosophical heart that beats with furious, mystical passion." -Terri Giuliano Long, author of In Leah's Wake, "This inventive debut doesn't imitate the traditional British academic comedy but, rather, forges an identity all its own." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg is a romantic heroine unlike any other...Save Your Own is a keeper." USA Today "Elisabeth Brink hooks the reader...and we start to pull for [Gillian] in this colorful 'ugly duckling to swan' story." Boston Globe "A smashing debut -- hilarious, smart, and charming...One of the most original characters I've encountered in recent fiction..."--Stephen McCauley, author of Object of My Affection and The Man of the House. "Sly, inventive, filled with irony and laughs and truth." -Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales and High-Wire Moon. "A brutally honest and truly funny first novel by a writer of immense talent." -Peter Orner, author of The Second Coming of Mavala Shikonga "Ultra-funny, super-sexy, and wickedly smart, with a philosophical heart that beats with furious, mystical passion." -Terri Giuliano Long, author of In Leahe(tm)s Wake, "Ultra-funny, super-sexy, and wickedly smart, with a philosophical heart that beats with furious, mystical passion." -Terri Giuliano Long, author of In Leah"s Wake

Dewey Decimal813/.6

Synopsis"I am a full-grown woman who looks like a ten-year-old boy, and not even a very handsome or cute one at that ... My mind, thankfully, has more to recommend it." So begins Save Your Own, a wicked satire as well as a rewarding story of self-transformation. Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg, intensely cerebral, narcoleptic, and a virgin, is in her final year at Harvard Divinity School. She needs simply to write her thesis and collect her diploma. But Gillian's life takes a sharp U-turn when the faculty deem her thesis topic, "secular conversion," unsuitable and threaten to cancel her funding. Determined to prove them wrong, she sets out to gather data and takes a job at a halfway house for addicted women. Here she must quickly transform herself from obedient graduate student into hardcore authority figure. The women push every limit she has, and Gillian finds herself at once repelled by their crass ways and in awe of their gutsy impulsiveness. Ultimately, they inspire her to realize her own true impulses and desires, as well as her need for love, which she's ignored for too long. Infused with a buoyant humor and striking intelligence, Save Your Own announces the arrival of a sparkling new voice in contemporary fiction., In her final year at Harvard Divinity School, Gillian Brandenburg must quickly transform herself from obedient graduate student to hardcore authority figure at a halfway house in order to gain supporting evidence for her thesis about spiritual transformation. Ultimately, the women inspire her to realize her own true impulses and desires.

LC Classification NumberPS3602.R5318S28 2006