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    Polly: A Novel

    By Amy Bryant

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    If you're looking for Polly Clark, she'll be the girl wearing Doc Martens and a Bad Brains T-shirt at the punk show. She'll be (almost) losing her virginity to a high school dropout, accompanied by the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn." She'll be looking for her artistic soul while trying to solve the mysteries of guys, life, her seriously dysfunctional family . . . and herself.In eight chapters, Polly is shaped by eight relationships in this honest, tender, original, and utterly endearing story of one girl's stumbles and successes in the world of punked-out 1980s suburban romance -- the unforgettable debut of an extraordinary new voice in contemporary fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061749636
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    Polly: A Novel
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    Amy Bryant

    A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Amy Bryant now lives in New York City. This is her first novel.

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    • 3/5
      I really liked the first few boyfriends/stories, but I feel like they got less exciting/descriptive as the novel wore on...I did love the narrator's voice and the settings
    • 3/5
      Bit of a disappointment. I loved the concept but the writing itself was so superficial -- I heard a lot about what happened to Polly, but it was all a little affectless, as if the author was afraid to really explore the emotions and relationships in the book. Polly was supposed to be obsessed with music, but I never really felt her engagement with the bands she loved. We got album titles and show dates, but where was the sense of passion, the sense of finding meaning and beauty in something bigger than yourself?
    • 4/5
      Polly is a good book that doesn't succeed in being great. I enjoyed it, but there was something missing about it. Perhaps because the book takes place in such a wide span and it jumps from one era of Polly's young womanhood to another without much closure. There is continuity in the chapters, which each feature a different boyfriend as a name, but I felt these moments were too fleeting. This book was read in the course of two days. I thought it was one of the better books I've read recently, I just wish it had been longer!