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“Finely attuned to the self-consciousness and vulnerability of adolescence, and the slippery elision of money and sophistication.”—The New Yorker
“Dazzling. . . . A piercing joy.”—Newsday
In 1966, longing to escape Levittown and her self-absorbed artist father, fourteen-year-old Maude secures a scholarship to a prestigious prep school. As family tensions surface, she struggles to find a morally acceptable place in the worlds of high art and social privilege.
Anna Shapiro is the author of two previous novels, The Right Bitch and Life and Love, Such as They Are, and a collection of essays, A Feast of Words.
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When Maude Pugh, an artistic and intellectual 14-year-old from Levittown, Long Island, obtains a scholarship to a prestigious prep school, her parents do not approve. They are not a private school type of family. But the Pughs have never really been a Levittown type of family either. Having abandoned their bohemian Greenwich Village past, they now live in a house where the walls are painted black to better showcase the paintings of Maude's father. Maude is eager to escape this confining world for that of the Bay Farm School and its socially privileged students. She befriends Weesie Herrick, a girl who lives on a nearby estate. Maude is entranced by Weesie's elegant lifestyle and envious of her mother's easy affection, while Weesie is embarrassed by her wealth and intrigued by the Pughs' bohemian lifestyle. As her high school years unfold, Maude's carefully constructed Bay Farm life is threatened by her family's tensions and secrets, and she is forced to seek happiness elsewhere. Witty and observant, Living on Air is a coming-of-age story that is also an exploration of culture, class, art, and adolescence in the 1960s.
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- PublisherSoho Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1569474559
- ISBN 13 9781569474556
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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