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America the Beautiful: A Novel
America the Beautiful: A Novel
America the Beautiful: A Novel
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America the Beautiful: A Novel

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America Throne is living the good life in L.A. Her career is sprouting, and she is in love -- with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falters on the slippery slope of hope: hoping that he will come back, hoping that new sex will erase all evidence of him, and hoping that in nurturing a truce with her dead father she will make peace with all men.
America's trip from self-destruction to wholeness is a romp on the wilder shores of the West Coast. From a dodgy therapist to a silent retreat, America Throne's "aha" moment culminates with, "While we are all busy swimming upstream, the universe is conspiring to take us to something better."
In America the Beautiful, Moon Zappa has taken the broken-heart story and given it a twist all her own through the emotional honesty and edginess of America Throne. Hailed as "brilliant" (Sunday Telegraph Magazine), America the Beautiful is the debut of an unforgettable and unfaltering new voice.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTouchstone
Release dateSep 30, 2001
ISBN9780743219136
America the Beautiful: A Novel

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    Perfect break-up book.
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    The narrator of the story 'America' is really witty, honest and despite acting like a desperate loser when her boyfriend dumps her, she's really cool!! A book for chicks who dont like chick-lit! I laughed out loud througout this. Genunely likeable character who's too cool to even realise she is!

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