Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Anton disclafanis yonahlossee riding camp for girls. The yonahlossee riding camp for girls hardcover square. Oilrich 20thcentury houston is the atmospheric setting. Anton disclafanis the yonahlossee riding camp for girls. Thea has lived her entire life in the small town of emathla, florida with only her parents and twin brother sam as company. The debut author, who is interviewed by curtis sittenfeld as part of first fiction 20 in the current issue, reads from her first novel, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls, which was recently published by riverhead books. Thea is out of place at yonahlossee, where money, class, and beauty determine social. Then thea disgraces and shames her family, so they send her away to north carolina to the yonahlossee riding camp for girls, a respite for young southern girls.
Apr 18, 20 the yonahlossee riding camp for girls by anton disclafani paperback now available from riverhead books a lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girlsschool rituals, set in the 1930s south. In the year 1930, thea atwell has been banished to a remote boarding. The yonahlossee riding camp for girls book trailer. High in the blue ridge mountains, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and girls friendships, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls is a far remove from the free roaming, dreamlike childhood thea shared with her twin brother on their familys citrus farm a world now partially shattered. The yonahlossee riding camp for girls is a story to savor in the heat of summer. Recorded books the yonahlossee riding camp for girls. The setup of anton disclafanis debut novel, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls, is irresistible. Disclafani also talks about teaching and her experience as writer in residence at washington university in st. The yonahlossee riding camp for girls is a 20thcentury gothic tale that reads like a lusty cousin of brontes classic. This week in our summer reading series blairs president carolyn sakowski talks about the book that took her back to her summer camp days.
The truth about camp yonahlossee, from a chief of the. Horses are everything for a southern teenager sent away to camp after offending her family in. The yonahlossee riding camp for girls by anton disclafani. Thea atwell is the headstrong 15yearold at the center of anton disclafanis sparkling debut novel, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls. About the yonahlossee riding camp for girls this summers first romantic page turner. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the yonahlossee riding camp for girls. Michiko kakutani, the new york times named a most anticipated book for summer 20 by the wall street journal and publishers weekly and usa today, npr, and people summer reads pick from the author of the after party, a lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girlsschool rituals. Anton disclafanis debut novel is being hailed as sexy, smart, and gorgeously written. The authors childhood fondness for horseback riding sets the scene of this story about teenage angst, boarding school drama and a family scandal that changes a girl forever. Anton disclafanis debut novel, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls, is a painstakingly constructed ode to a young girl s sexual awakening. Thea is resistant to the camp and wishes she didnt have to leave her home.
Yonahlossee racquet club tennis fitness pool boone nc. Disclafani presents us with luscious visuals like the yonahlossee girls riding in their radiant uniforms under the tutelage of. More bodice unbuttoner than bodice ripper, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls, by anton disclafani, is nonetheless an ode to a young girl s sexual awakening. The yonahlossee riding camp for girls ebook written by anton disclafani. Yonahlossee racquet club was originally founded as camp yonahlossee in 1922, and featured horseback riding, swimming, pottery, weaving, hiking, and tending to their farm. The yonahlossee riding camp for girls ebook by anton.
The yonahlossee riding camp for girls book trailer youtube. In january 2012, the buzz in the book industry was about a first novel auctioned for a rumored sevenfigure deal. In 1930, thea is sent away from her isolated childhood home in florida to the yonahlosse riding camp for girls. Pdf download the yonahlossee riding camp for girls free. Buy the yonahlossee riding camp for girls reprint by disclafani, anton isbn. Its 1930, the country is in the throes of the depression, and 15yearold thea atwell has. This is perhaps one of the classier books a young teen would hide under her covers to read with a flashlight. The other half of the novel takes place during the 1930s at the yonahlossee riding camp for girls, to which thea is banished following a mysterious tragedy at home. It is 1930 when 15yearold thea atwell is sent to the yonahlossee riding camp for girls. Set during the great depression, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls stars 15yearold thea atwell, who lands at an equestrian boarding school after being cast out of her florida home for her role in a family tragedy. High in the blue ridge mountains, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty, and girls friendships, the yonahlossee riding camp for girls is a far remove from the free roaming, dreamlike childhood thea shared with her twin brother on their familys citrus farma world now partially shattered. Shes been exiled from her familys 1,000acre florida farm to an equestrienne boarding school in the blue ridge mountains of north carolina, after a family drama she is at the center of decimates the life they knew. Camp yonahlossee sold its property six decades later to a developer named john rice, who set out to create a worldclass tennis resort and preserve the natural mountain landscape.
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