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Shut the Door
Shut the Door
Author: Amanda Marquit
In one of the most impressive debut novels ever written by a teenager, Shut the Door, says the New York Post, is “a raw and disturbing portrayal of a suburban family.” — In a household spiraling out of control, Lilliana and Vivian are two teenage sisters struggling to carve out their identities as young adults, taking ri...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312319304
ISBN-10: 0312319304
Publication Date: 2/21/2006
Pages: 240
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I know she wrote this at 16 so I feel like I'm going to hell for this, but..it's just not very original. The characters are so stereotypical and one-dimensional. I can tell that she's watched a lot of movies, though, because her writing is very cinematic. She'll probably be a good writer with maturity, though, so long as she learns that writing in sentence fragments makes a book hard to read, not "edgy".


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