Big Mouth & Ugly Girl - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066237580 ISBN 13: 9780066237589

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2002

Synopsis

Having been the only one to hear Matt Donaghy threaten to blow up the school, Ursula Riggs, a loner and outsider at Rocky River High School, is left on her own to figure out what needs to be done with the statement she has heard. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"A fast-moving, timely, compelling story." -- School Library Journal

"Compelling. Honest and penetrating." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Gripping." -- Washington Post

"A thought-provoking, character-driven drama." -- ALA Booklist (starred review)

Gripping. --Washington Post

"Gripping."--Washington Post

"A fast-moving, timely, compelling story."--School Library Journal

"A divinely readable novel, one of the finest and most provocative in any genre of late."--Ruminator Review

"A thought-provoking, character-driven drama."--ALA Booklist (starred review)

"A superb story bursting with themes relevant to high school life today."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0066237580
• ISBN 13: 9780066237589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 266