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Nothing
Robin Friedman
出版
North Star Editions
, 2008
主題
Juvenile Fiction / Boys & Men
Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings
Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Depression & Mental Illness
Young Adult Fiction / General
Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Depression
Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
ISBN
073871304X
9780738713045
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XM-fmAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm." For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend--one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. That's why he has to keep it a secret. The pocketful of breath mints. The weird smell in the bathroom. He can't tell his achievement-obsessed father. He can't tell his hired college consultant. And he certainly can't tell Julianne, the "vision of hotness" he so desperately wants to love. Only Parker's little sister Danielle seems to notice that he's withering away. But the thunder of praise surrounding Parker and his accomplishments reduces her voice to broken poetry: I can't breathe when my brother's around because I feel smothered, blank and faded