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    Living on Air

    By Anna Shapiro

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    About this ebook

    “Finely attuned to the self-consciousness and vulnerability of adolescence, and the slippery elision of money and sophistication.”—The New Yorker

    “Dazzling. . . . A piercing joy.”—Newsday

    In 1966, longing to escape Levittown and her self-absorbed artist father, fourteen-year-old Maude secures a scholarship to a prestigious prep school. As family tensions surface, she struggles to find a morally acceptable place in the worlds of high art and social privilege.

    Anna Shapiro is the author of two previous novels, The Right Bitch and Life and Love, Such as They Are, and a collection of essays, A Feast of Words.


    From the Trade Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateMay 1, 2007
    ISBN9781569477182
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