The Sharp Time - Hardcover

O'Connell, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385740484 ISBN 13: 9780385740487

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 2011

Synopsis

Sandinista Jones is a high school senior with a punk rock name and a broken heart. The death of her single mother has left Sandinista alone in the world, subject to the random vulnerability of everyday life. When the school system lets her down, her grief and instability intensify, and she ponders a violent act of revenge.
Still, in the midst of her crisis, she gets a job at The Pale Circus, a funky vintage clothing shop, and finds friendship and camaraderie with her coworker, a boy struggling with his own secrets.
Even as Sandinista sees the failures of those with power and authority, she's offered the chance to survive through the redemptive power of friendship. Now she must choose between faith and forgiveness or violence and vengeance.

About this title

About the Author

MARY O'CONNELL is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and the author of the short story collection, Living With Saints. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in several literary magazines, and she is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship and a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award. The Sharp Time is her first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385740484
• ISBN 13: 9780385740487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 229