The Bitch Posse - Hardcover

O'Connor, Martha

3.46

1,989 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312333927 ISBN 13: 9780312333928

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2005

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Inseparable friends in high school, a dysfunctional writer, a struggling family woman, and a mental hospital patient remember the 1988 confrontation that marked their lives and bound them together with a secret that never came to light. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Astonishing and truly remarkable...tough, subtle, tense, authentic, and very beautiful. If this isn't really Alice Sebold, Donna Tartt, or Barbara Vine writing under a pseudonym, then Martha O'Connor is a huge new talent who is already about as good as it gets."
---Lee Child, author of "The Enemy"

"Compulsively readable...delicious and slightly macabre details of the mid-1980's alterna-teen culture."

-"The ""Washington Post Book World"

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"There's nothing pink and frilly about this tale...It's scathing, dark and impossible to put down."

-"The ""Newark Star-Ledger"

"A sizzling page-turner."

-"Cosmopolitan"

""The Bitch Posse" is a riveting and emotionally charged read. No fluff here."

--"Chicago Tribune"

"Mysterious, violent...good girls by day and serious risk takers at night."

--"Los Angeles Times"

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"Eye-opening, gut-wrenching...one of the best first novels I've read this year, one that I'd literally love to put in every discerning reader's hands."

- Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, Pick of the Week

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"Intense, disturbing, and deeply intriguing...Fast-paced yet hauntingly reflective, this is one tough and tender read."

--Robert Gray, author of Fresh Eyes: A Bookseller's Journal

"Quite unabashedly satisfying...prompting even this most jaded reviewer to stay up until the wee hours of the night just to find out what happened next...a thrilling ride."

--"Bookreporter"

"Not for the faint of heart, this debut novel will keep readers glued to the very last page."

--"Library Journal"

"The story fascinates even as it repels."

--"Publishers Weekly"

"As good a debut as it's cracked up to be...edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines."

-"The Tatler" (UK)

"Reminiscent of cult movie 'Heathers', it revels in the seedy underbelly of American life."

--"Glamour" (UK)

"O'Connor nails the intense, us-against-the-world, overcooked emotion that defines the friendship of teen girls and the druggy delirium of first, sexual love."

--"The Cleveland Plain-Dealer"

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"Dark, compelling and not for the faint-hearted.'

--"Heat" (UK)

"An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage."

-"MARIE CLAIRE" (UK)

"A little substance never hurt anyone, and The Bitch Posse offers plenty."

--"Winnipeg Free Press"

Astonishing and truly remarkable...tough, subtle, tense, authentic, and very beautiful. If this isn't really Alice Sebold, Donna Tartt, or Barbara Vine writing under a pseudonym, then Martha O'Connor is a huge new talent who is already about as good as it gets.--Lee Child, author of The Enemy

Eye-opening, gut-wrenching one of the best first novels I've read this year, one that I'd literally love to put in every discerning reader's hands.--Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, Pick of the Week"

Intense, disturbing, and deeply intriguing Fast-paced yet hauntingly reflective, this is one tough and tender read.--Robert Gray, author of Fresh Eyes: A Bookseller's Journal"

Astonishing and truly remarkable...tough, subtle, tense, authentic, and very beautiful. If this isn't really Alice Sebold, Donna Tartt, or Barbara Vine writing under a pseudonym, then Martha O'Connor is a huge new talent who is already about as good as it gets. Lee Child, author of The Enemy

Compulsively readable delicious and slightly macabre details of the mid-1980's alterna-teen culture. "The Washington Post Book World"

There's nothing pink and frilly about this tale It's scathing, dark and impossible to put down. "The Newark Star-Ledger"

A sizzling page-turner. "Cosmopolitan"

"The Bitch Posse" is a riveting and emotionally charged read. No fluff here. "Chicago Tribune"

Mysterious, violent good girls by day and serious risk takers at night. "Los Angeles Times"

Eye-opening, gut-wrenching one of the best first novels I've read this year, one that I'd literally love to put in every discerning reader's hands. Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, Pick of the Week

Intense, disturbing, and deeply intriguing Fast-paced yet hauntingly reflective, this is one tough and tender read. Robert Gray, author of Fresh Eyes: A Bookseller's Journal

Quite unabashedly satisfying...prompting even this most jaded reviewer to stay up until the wee hours of the night just to find out what happened next...a thrilling ride. "Bookreporter"

Not for the faint of heart, this debut novel will keep readers glued to the very last page. "Library Journal"

The story fascinates even as it repels. "Publishers Weekly"

As good a debut as it's cracked up to be...edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines. "The Tatler (UK)"

Reminiscent of cult movie 'Heathers', it revels in the seedy underbelly of American life. "Glamour (UK)"

O'Connor nails the intense, us-against-the-world, overcooked emotion that defines the friendship of teen girls and the druggy delirium of first, sexual love. "The Cleveland Plain-Dealer"

Dark, compelling and not for the faint-hearted. "Heat (UK)"

An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage. "MARIE CLAIRE (UK)"

A little substance never hurt anyone, and The Bitch Posse offers plenty. "Winnipeg Free Press""

"Compulsively readable...delicious and slightly macabre details of the mid-1980's alterna-teen culture." --The Washington Post Book World

"There's nothing pink and frilly about this tale...It's scathing, dark and impossible to put down." --The Newark Star-Ledger

"A sizzling page-turner." --Cosmopolitan

"The Bitch Posse is a riveting and emotionally charged read. No fluff here." --Chicago Tribune

"Mysterious, violent...good girls by day and serious risk takers at night." --Los Angeles Times

"Eye-opening, gut-wrenching...one of the best first novels I've read this year, one that I'd literally love to put in every discerning reader's hands." --Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, Pick of the Week

"Intense, disturbing, and deeply intriguing...Fast-paced yet hauntingly reflective, this is one tough and tender read." --Robert Gray, author of Fresh Eyes: A Bookseller's Journal

"Quite unabashedly satisfying...prompting even this most jaded reviewer to stay up until the wee hours of the night just to find out what happened next...a thrilling ride." --Bookreporter

"Not for the faint of heart, this debut novel will keep readers glued to the very last page." --Library Journal

"The story fascinates even as it repels." --Publishers Weekly

"As good a debut as it's cracked up to be...edgy, smart and sexy, like its heroines." --The Tatler (UK)

"Reminiscent of cult movie 'Heathers', it revels in the seedy underbelly of American life." --Glamour (UK)

"O'Connor nails the intense, us-against-the-world, overcooked emotion that defines the friendship of teen girls and the druggy delirium of first, sexual love." --The Cleveland Plain-Dealer

"Dark, compelling and not for the faint-hearted." --Heat (UK)

"An angsty, serious novel of lost dreams and sexual damage." --MARIE CLAIRE (UK)

"A little substance never hurt anyone, and The Bitch Posse offers plenty." --Winnipeg Free Press

From the Back Cover:

Extraordinary Praise for Martha O'Connor

"The Bitch Posse is dark, poignant, and only too believable. Renny, Cherry, and Amy are strivers at school by day and connivers by night. Self-styled rebels without a clue, they are bound together in friendship. Little do they realize that there will come a day when their naive passions will lead them to a vicious mishap, blood that will stay on their hands for the rest of their lives. This is a book that will walk alongside you, and haunt your dreams, long after you turn the last page."---Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and A Theory of Relativity

"The fierce young heroines of Martha O'Connor's uncompromising novel team up in high school and head out into the night to raise hell---not knowing, of course, the infernal depths to which their anger and pain can take them. From the first the story of Rennie, Cherry, and Amy is eye-popping: a profane and unabashed account of a girls' pact to get out of the Midwest and get even with the small-town toss of the dice that's doomed them. Told in dramatic flash-like chapters, skimming back and forth through time, and allowing raw emotion to be its nerve-addled guide, The Bitch Posse is a debut worthy of Joyce Carol Oates. That is, O'Connor steals into Oates's bleak, erotically desolate territory by night to explore the pathology of adolescent loneliness and longing, along the way making full-fledged women of this compellingly capricious sister act. And in the end, it's lit---just so---by the glow of the dying fires of youth, and bitter with the taste of the aftermath ashes of a hard-won yet oddly hopeful wisdom."---Edmund White, author of Fanny: A Fiction

"This is a novel that gets under the skin, a novel that cuts deep. Martha O'Connor has crafted a trio of unforgettable characters, young women so heart-wrenchingly alive, they burst from the page. The Bitch Posse has all the makings of a modern-day classic; it left me shaken, moved, and deeply grateful for the journey."---Gayle Brandeis, author of The Book of Dead Birds and winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction

"A nuanced and often disturbing consideration of the assets and liabilities of friendship and loyalty. Very brave mother-daughter book groups will do well to choose this novel!" -Katharine Weber, author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, The Music Lesson, and The Little Women

"Every once in a while a book comes along that speaks the truth so intensely that it's a bit like ambulance chasing: You want to look away but simply can't. In this era of Prada-obsessed chick-lit heroines and Machiavellian Mean Girls, the young women in The Bitch Posse are complex Every Girls---precocious but confused, wry but sad, rebellious but stability-seeking, insecure yet powerful. An exquisitely observant portrait of three very different best friends whose lives change forever on a fateful night in high school, The Bitch Posse is one of the saddest, funniest, and most original stories about deep emotional connections and the forces that threaten to unravel them."---Lori Gottlieb, author of Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self

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