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The Cheer Leader

The Cheer Leader - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jill McCorklePublish date:2003-09-30Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781565120013ISBN-10:1565120019UPC:9781565120013Book Category:FictionSize:7.16 x 4.98 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCMPKK54DC
Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it-straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early seventies, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In The Cheerleader, Jo Spencer looks back, as if she were watching reruns of old syndicated TV shows, to figure out what happened.

Ordinary chance has dumped Sam Swett, age twenty-one, in the Marshboro, North Carolina, Quik Pik in the middle of a murder. Sam has shaved his head, given away all his belongings except his typewriter; he's drunker than he's ever been and running as fast as he can from his upper-middle-class upbringing. For the next twenty-four hours, Sam is propelled straight into the very core of this small Southern town as it sorts through the facts.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781565120013ISBN-10:1565120019UPC:9781565120013Book Category:FictionSize:7.16 x 4.98 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCMPKK54DC

Jill McCorkle published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Of these novels, the New York Times Book Review said: "one suspects the author of The Cheer Leader is a born novelist. With July 7th, she is also a full grown one." Since then she has published five other novels--most recently, Hieroglyphics-- and four collections of short stories. Five of her books have been named New York Times notable books and four of her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories. McCorkle has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, the North Carolina Award for Literature and the Thomas Wolfe Prize; she was recently inducted into the NC Literary Hall of Fame. McCorkle has taught at Harvard, Brandeis and NC State where she remains affiliated with the MFA Program in creative writing and she is core faculty in the Bennington Writing Seminars.


Publisher: Algonquin Books

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