Francesca Serritella
Auteur de Ghosts of Harvard
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Œuvres de Francesca Serritella
Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life as a Mother and Daughter (2011) 125 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Serritella, Francesca
- Nom légal
- Serritella, Francesca Scottoline
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Harvard University (cum laude)
- Relations
- Scottoline, Lisa (mother)
- Prix et distinctions
- Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize
Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize
Charles Edmund Horman Prize - Agent
- Molly Friedrich (Friedrich Agency)
Paul Cirone (Friedrich Agency)
Lucy Carson (Friedrich Agency) - Courte biographie
- Francesca Serritella graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where she won the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, the Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize, and the Charles Edmund Horman Prize for her creative writing. Her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, and she is working on a novel. She lives in New York with only one dog, so far. [from Best Friends, Occasional Enemies (2011)]
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- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 1,293
- Popularité
- #19,850
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 93
- ISBN
- 89
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 2
Cadence (Cady) Archer was determined to follow her genius brother (Eric) into Harvard University even though her brother committed suicide the year before. Cady's mother highly disapproved of this academic path and wouldn't even join her husband when he dropped Cady off at school. Eric had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was known to go off his meds so his killing himself was blamed on that. Cady wasn't so sure and one of her reasons for going to Harvard was to find out as much as she could about her brother's last months. Shortly after Cady gets to Harvard she starts hearing voices and worries that she also has schizophrenia. One of the voices she hears belongs to a black woman called Bilhah. When Cady sees a plaque naming Bilhah as a slave in the Harvard president's house in the 18th century she realizes that the voices she hears belong to people who actually lived. The other two voices belong to men from the 20th century, one called just Bob for most of the book and the other, Whit, longs to work on dirigibles in the Navy. Each of these ghosts seem to require something from Cady which just adds to her stress level due to class load, an almost rape at a frat party, finding clues to her brother's actions and a professor who seems to hate her. And, of course, like any other first year university student she is not sleeping enough, drinking too much and eating badly. The one thing that seems to be going well is the attention of her brother's friend, handsome Brit physics student Nikos. Or is it? Nikos is now working with Eric's advisor, the beautiful Mikaela Prokop, and Cady begins to suspect that Prokop was and probably still is selling secrets to the Russians. Does Nikos know? Is this why at the beginning of the book it appears that Cady is likely to commit suicide as her brother did? You'll have to read it to find out.
The author is the daughter of well-known writer Lisa Scottoline. I've read a few of Scottoline's books but don't remember much about them. I might have to see if she is as good a writer as her daughter.… (plus d'informations)