![]() ![]() Lee is an observer, an expert on Ault's rituals and secret codes from the outside, a memoriser of the school yearbook and a desperate student of insider jargon. She is not pretty enough to fit in as a female and she is not a strong enough personality to become one of Ault's rare outsider loner types. She both cares too much and not enough about what others think. Scholarship girl Lee does not fit it at all: she's too working class, too sensitive, too goofy. If you're a boy who dislikes sport, you might as well start writing your suicide note now. Ault is the sort of place where, if you're a girl, your social standing is measured by the intricacy of the flower design on your bedspread. Prep doesn't come sugar-coated: it is dark and obsessive examination of the cruelty of the coolness hierarchy. After rave reviews and becoming a New York Times bestseller, it has also been optioned as a film by Paramount. Rejected by 14 publishers before it found a home, Curtis Sittenfeld's debut is an addictive portrait of adolescence - The OC meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with flashes of Clueless. ![]()
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