Sittenfeld is a pin-sharp observer, and in Prep she needles away at class, race and character.Prep will appeal to any age.A highly accomplished novel. Sittenfeld captures the hothouse atmosphere of boarding-school, the way you see even people you don't like in their underwear.Mostly, however, it's Lee's voice that makes all this worthwhile." London Review of Books "Curtis Sittenfeld shares with Salinger a knack of capturing, in effortless prose, a teenager mindset.It feels important.Most vitally of all, it feels like adolescence." The Times "You don't have to have attended an elite Massachusetts boarding school to find yourself reliving your adolescence in Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep.Even the Cross Sugarmans (major crush) and Aspeth Montgomerys (long legs, super popular) of this world will cringe with recognition at the book's fine-knit accuracy and detail." Vogue "Sweet Valley High as written by George Eliot. Sittenfeld is real, a 29-year-old writer whose. Lee Is in the Trap: A Close Reading of 'Prep' Wikipedia.
These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's great to relive it all, now that it is happening to someone else." Observer "Straightforward, serious, funny.There is so much that is right about this book. Curtis Sittenfeld is a Midwesterner who attended an elite Massachusetts boarding school and was tormented by a crush. Prep study guide contains a biography of Curtis Sittenfeld, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Sittenfeld's strength is in making the experience feel universal.Everyone will wince with recognition at the horror of being a teenager. "The OC meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with flashes of Clueless. But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find - and maintain - her place in the pecking order.
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