Fierce People - Softcover

Dirk Wittenborn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747561540 ISBN 13: 9780747561545

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2003

Synopsis

1978: Lower East Side, New York Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two-year old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit forces them to flee the city, they find protection under the wing of one of her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle, a golden playground for the super-rich, Finn discovers a people who are stranger, more savage, and more secretive than any tribe in National Geographic. Offered a new life and new friends he falls in love and grows up fast. But, on what should be the happiest night of Finn's life, on an island in the middle of a private lake, naked and high with Osborne's bewitching granddaughter, someone is watching him from the depths of the forest..and laughing. 'The ingredients of this study of adolescent loss-of-innocence conform to a well-tried formula, used here with energy and fluency,,,he is both savage and funny' Sunday Telegraph 'Wittenborn re-creates the mind of a 15-year-old with verve and humour..the jokes are good..the dialogue is crisp ' The Telegraph

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Fierce People is a whacked out hybrid of Dickens and Salinger, a compelling-and moving-coming-of-age novel...' -Jay McInerney
"I found Dirk Wittenborn's grandly entertaining and wildly ambitious novel, Fierce People, to be both hilarious and heartbreaking."-Dominick Dunne
"A riveting page-turner that offers a haunting and fascinating glimpse into the lives of the super-rich-truly the fiercest class of all."-Candace Bushnell
"Wittenborn offers plenty of unusual spins on the usual coming-of-age formula, and his eclectic, idiosyncratic characters provide plenty of entertainment...this peek behind the scenes of a wealthy family remains novel and fascinating from start to finish."-Publishers Weekly(starred review)

About the Author:

Dirk Wittenborn was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He spent his teenage years in a community not unlike the fictional village of Vlyvalle. He's the author of two previous novels, Eclipse and Zoe and has written for television and film. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0747561540
• ISBN 13: 9780747561545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352