And now you can go : a novel / Vendela Vida.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vida, Vendela.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Victims of crimes--Fiction.

Victims of crimes.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Philippines--Fiction.

Philippines.

Nurses--Fiction.

Nurses.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

189 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.

Summary:

A sharply humorous and fast-paced debut novel about the effects--some predictable, some wildly unexpected--that an encounter at gunpoint have on a (previously) assured young woman. The gun is pointed at 21-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New York City park. Although she escapes unharmed--and unrobbed--she is left psychologically reeling. Over the next weeks Ellis keeps everyone at bay: the police, suitors who want to save her ("the poet from ROTC" and "the red-faced representative of the world"), and the university therapist who hints that her sweaters are too tight. But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission in the Philippines she finds that life--even if held up--cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1400040272

OCLC:

50694997