As cool as I am - Softcover

Fromm, Pete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250045576 ISBN 13: 9781250045577

Publisher: Picador USA, 2013

Synopsis

As teenager Lucy Diamond begins to move from adolescence to womanhood, her mother's youth fades, offering an emotional juxtaposition of tension and love that reveals both women's similarities, differences, vulnerabilities, and needs. By the author of How All This Started. 15,000 first printing.

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Review

"This novel packs an emotional punch that sneaks up from behind...Fromm creates an engrossing coming-of-age saga that cuts to the essence and shines." --"Seattle Times"
"One of the more startling beautiful and evocative tales of young womanhood...Fromm's voice-on loan to Lucy-is provocative, gritty, erotic, hilarious and genuine, and this book is a fresh breath of teen spirit."
--Ron Franscell, "San Francisco Chronicle"
"Deceptively simple and so artfully constructed it takes you someplace far deeper than you expected....Lucy Diamond is the kind of woman Johnny Cash might have memorialized with his graveyard croon....A novel of great drive and soul."
--Carlo Wolff, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
One of the more startling beautiful and evocative tales of young womanhood...Fromm's voice-on loan to Lucy-is provocative, gritty, erotic, hilarious and genuine, and this book is a fresh breath of teen spirit.--Ron Franscell "San Francisco Chronicle "

Deceptively simple and so artfully constructed it takes you someplace far deeper than you expected....Lucy Diamond is the kind of woman Johnny Cash might have memorialized with his graveyard croon....A novel of great drive and soul.--Carlo Wolff "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "

This novel packs an emotional punch that sneaks up from behind...Fromm creates an engrossing coming-of-age saga that cuts to the essence and shines. "Seattle Times"

One of the more startling beautiful and evocative tales of young womanhood...Fromm's voice-on loan to Lucy-is provocative, gritty, erotic, hilarious and genuine, and this book is a fresh breath of teen spirit. Ron Franscell, "San Francisco Chronicle"

Deceptively simple and so artfully constructed it takes you someplace far deeper than you expected....Lucy Diamond is the kind of woman Johnny Cash might have memorialized with his graveyard croon....A novel of great drive and soul. Carlo Wolff, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel""

"This novel packs an emotional punch that sneaks up from behind...Fromm creates an engrossing coming-of-age saga that cuts to the essence and shines." --Seattle Times

"One of the more startling beautiful and evocative tales of young womanhood...Fromm's voice-on loan to Lucy-is provocative, gritty, erotic, hilarious and genuine, and this book is a fresh breath of teen spirit." --Ron Franscell, San Francisco Chronicle

"Deceptively simple and so artfully constructed it takes you someplace far deeper than you expected....Lucy Diamond is the kind of woman Johnny Cash might have memorialized with his graveyard croon....A novel of great drive and soul." --Carlo Wolff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

About the Author

Pete Fromm's fiction and nonfiction have won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's Book of the Year award an impressive four times. His past works include Night Swimming, How All This Started, and Indian Creek Chronicles. He has also published more than 100 short stories, and is on the faculty of Pacific University's MFA writing program. He lives in Montana with his wife and two sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1250045576
• ISBN 13: 9781250045577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388