Swanna in Love
Swanna in Love
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Published:
14 March, 2024
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It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late-stoned and radiant-in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont-to an artist colony where kids are not welcome and they are forced to sleep in the back of the truck, while Val is cozy inside the house with the Russian. Then Swanna meets Dennis, a handsome married father of two, at a bowling alley, and, knowing a thing or two about seduction from Judy Blume, her best friend at camp, and her own parents' many affairs, she sets out to convince Dennis to help her. But love seldom obeys rules, and even a tough, smart, city girl like Swanna might not be able to handle falling in love. Best-selling novelist Jennifer Belle returns with a kind of inverse Lolita that explores adolescent desire from the girl's point of view. In turns hilarious and wildly shocking, Swanna in Love will keep your feathers ruffled and the pages gliding by.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781915368584 |
| ISBN10 | 1915368588 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Dead Ink Books |
| Format | paperback |
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Media Reviews
- “Belle brilliantly parses the complexities of transgressive desire from both sides of the coin in this electric novel while lending the precocious, super-smart, highly confident Swanna a fiercely compelling and persuasive voice. What’s more, it’s superbly funny.” Daily Mail
- “A brilliantly provocative tale…brimming with dark humour” The Independent
- "Both a riotous page-turner and a thoughtful examination of girlhood, vulnerability, and sexual power." Kirkus Reviews
- “Belle breaks hearts with the story of Swanna’s first love." Publishers Weekly
- “Swanna in Love never holds back from heavy content, but its peppy teenage tone prevents the book from feeling too burdensome…Coming to know Swanna is a treat, and it’s only through Belle’s deft hand that readers leave wanting so much better for her.” The Harvard Crimson
- "Oh, how I loved the whip-smart Swanna Swain. I loved the way she effortlessly lied to people. I love how much she wanted things, good and bad. With Swanna in Love, Jennifer Belle has given us the other side of Nabokov's Lolita―the misunderstood teenage temptress who desperately wants an ice cream sandwich, a comfortable bed to sleep in. ― Marcy Dermansky, author of Hurricane Girl
- “Swanna in Love is a coming-of-age novel unlike anything I’ve ever read―beautiful, funny, and heartbreakingly true. I loved, and believed, every word of it." Laura Zigman, author of Small World
- “A book as genuinely funny as it is transgressive.” Tom Perrotta, author of Tracy Flick Can’t Win
- “The most pitch-perfect portrait of adolescence since The Catcher in the Rye.” Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
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Author's Bio
Jennifer Belle burst onto the literary scene with her critically-acclaimed debut novel Going Down, which was translated into many languages and optioned for the screen, first by Madonna, for whom she wrote the screenplay, and currently by Das Films. Belle was named Best New Novelist by Entertainment Weekly, profiled in New York Magazine and People, and compared to Dorothy Parker, Lorrie Moore, and J.D. Salinger. Her second equally-praised novel, the national bestseller High Maintenance, took on the cutthroat world of Manhattan real estate, and was also optioned for film and television. In 2007, Belle published her third novel Little Stalker, another sharp and funny look at life in New York City.