Where was this show when I was 15? Lee may be no Blair Waldorf, but then again, mean girls are so 2014. So, the show will have a prep school setting and roots in 30 Rock comedy and Game of Thrones drama? Oh, and all the major players are women? Hell, yes. The series will be developed by Colleen McGuinness, a former writer and producer for 30 Rock, and Carolyn Strauss, an executive producer for Game of Thrones. There, she learns about relationships (both platonic and romantic) and discrimination (both gender and racial) and herself. Prep tells the story of Lee Fiora, a Midwestern girl who moves across the country to attend a fictional boarding school, the Ault School, in Massachusetts. Now, 11 years after its release in 2005, the popular book is to coming to HBO as a comedy series, as Deadline reports. You know, that awkward phase when you were not a girl, but not yet a woman (Britney Spears - you did it best, girl).īut Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, also does a wonderful job. 'Straightforward, serious, funny.Few writers can successfully tackle the daunting task of capturing what it's like to be a teenager. and Sittenfeld renders it with astonishing deftness and clarity.' JENNIFER EGAN Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld - Reading Guide: 9780812972351 - : Books An insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and. 'PREP is more than a coming of age story - it's a study of social class.
But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find - and maintain - her place in the pecking order. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields, everyone singing hymns in chapel. Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. 18 years after Preps publication (), I spoke with readers in various countries who asked such thoughtful, funny, moving questions about the book. 'Sittenfeld shares with Salinger a knack of capturing, in effortless prose, a teenager mindset' THE TIMES
'PREP might just be my favourite book' PANDORA SYKES 'Sittenfeld writes girls and women as they truly are, with shades of light and dark, with and without grace, apologetic as well as fearless' GUARDIAN
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