Prep sittenfeld5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Sittenfeld gives this awkward girl a thorough going-over, lavishing attention on her every pang, her every moment of self-hatred. The novel follows Hannah through the various stations of her self-conscious, doubt-wracked life: parents' divorce, college at Tufts, first love affair, first job, first vague glimmer of satisfaction. Like her predecessor in "Prep," Hannah, the protagonist of Sittenfeld's new novel, is a kind of female Charlie Brown: shy, hapless and downtrodden, this last by her own consent and often by her own agency. The most important thing, the thing we really ought to be focusing on, is this sad girl. It's as if she is saying: All that insiderish preppy stuff was the least important thing about my writing. "The Man of My Dreams" can be seen as a final kiss-off to the Lacoste-wearing elite. Sittenfeld's second novel keeps the lonely, principled part and tosses the school. "Prep" told the story of a lonely, principled, sensitive girl trapped in a world she never made: prep school. In her first novel, Curtis Sittenfeld came off - wonderfully - as an angry writer, a writer ready and willing to épater the teenage bourgeoisie till it squealed for mercy. ![]()
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