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Overview
College senior Natalie Bloom is beautiful and ambitious, but also painfully insecure. At twenty, she’s still a virgin, never even having had a boyfriend. At school, Natalie hides out most weekends in the library—until she meets Patrick, her fantasy (she thinks) of a cultured, intellectual Prince Charming. But the more time they spend together, the more Patrick brings out her worst insecurities. And before Natalie’s ready, she winds up losing her virginity— and her sense of direction, as her emotional responses take a dangerously self-destructive turn. Soon it’ll take only the most extreme measures to reclaim her sense of self, her confidence, and her ambition.
Insightful, moving, and achingly self-aware, College Girl is an intensely real portrait of a character whose insecurities are recognizable to us all, and of a time of life that changes everything.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781101015056 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 12/26/2008 |
Sold by: | Penguin Group |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 336 |
File size: | 351 KB |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
What People are Saying About This
"A sensitive yet laser-precise look at the joy (and indignity) of college life."
-Diablo Cody, Oscar(r)-winning screenwriter of Juno
"Weitz's prose is insightful, and Natalie's rocky coming-of-age tale...[is] a compelling read."
-USA Today
"Weitz is so adept at capturing the pain and insecurity attached to campus life and love, it's impossible to read without squirming-or at least without recalling the stupid decisions of your own early 20s."
-Entertainment Weekly
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INTRODUCTION
College senior Natalie Bloom worked hard to get into the University of Connecticut. Having transferred from a local community college, she thinks she has finally made it. Although attractive and ambitious, she is insecure about her working-class family and intimidated by her classmates. She’s awkward at friendships with girls, and even more inept at relationships with boys. Still a virgin at the age of 20, it is the topic of sex that most baffles her. So she sticks with what she knows and spends most of her time at the library hidden behind stacks of books. That is, until she meets Patrick. Cultured, intellectual, and oddly attractive, Patrick seems to be the guy Natalie has been waiting for.
But the more time they spend together, the more Patrick seems to bring out the worst in Natalie. As their relationship escalates, Natalie must figure out who she is and take the steps to reclaim her sense of self, her confidence, and her ambition—before she loses it completely.
ABOUT PATRICIA WEITZ
Patricia Weitz has worked for The Nation, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, director and screenwriter Paul Weitz, and their two children.
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