Half His Age — Jennette McCurdy

Half His Age
Jennette McCurdyHarperCollins Publishers (Australia
Half His Age
Jennette McCurdyWaldo is ravenous Horny Blunt Naive Wise Impulsive Lonely Angry Hurting Endlessly wanting And the thing she wants most of all Mr Korgy her creative writing teacher Mr Korgy with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch She doesn t know why she wants him Is it his passion His life experience The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn t Or are they actually kindred spirits sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them Or perhaps it s just enough that he sees her when no one else does Startlingly perceptive mordantly funny and keenly poignant Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen year old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen to be desired and to be loved Tanıtım Bülteninden

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLERHalf His Age is a highly anticipated funny sad thrilling novel about sex class desire and power and the often misguided lengths we ll go to to get what we want from Jennette McCurdy the three million copy bestselling author of I m Glad My Mom Died SHOCKING HONEST AND UNSPARING SUNDAY TIMES STYLE A HILARIOUS AND UNCOMFORTABLE TRIUMPH GUARDIAN EERIE UNSETTLING AND BELIEVABLE GILLIAN FLYNN AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL ABSOLUTE DYNAMITE ELIZABETH DAYWaldo is ravenous Horny Blunt Naive Wise Impulsive Lonely Angry Hurting Endlessly wanting And the thing she wants most of all Mr Korgy her creative writing teacher Mr Korgy with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch She doesn t know why she wants him Is it his passion His life experience The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn t Or are they actually kindred spirits sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them Or perhaps it s just enough that he sees her when no one else does Startlingly perceptive mordantly funny and keenly poignant Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen year old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen to be desired and to be loved THOUGHT PROVOKING SHOCKING AND DARKLY COMIC INDEPENDENT Tanıtım Bülteninden