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Julianna Baggott

Author of Pure

39+ Works 5,102 Members 287 Reviews 5 Favorited

About the Author

Julianna Baggott received her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1994, where she held a Greensboro Scholar Fellowship. In 1998 and 1999, she placed nearly forty poems and short stories in such magazines as Poetry, The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Indiana show more Review. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Delaware Division of Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Ragdale Foundation. Winner of the Eyster Prize for Fiction in 1998, her manuscript of poems was a 1999 finalist in Breadloaf's first-book prize. She lives in Newark, Delaware with her husband, poet David G. W. Scott, and their three children. Girl Talk is her first novel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Julianna Baggott

Pure (2012) 1,325 copies
The Anybodies (2004) 865 copies
Fuse (2013) 430 copies
My Husband's Sweethearts (2008) 239 copies
Burn (2014) 231 copies
The Pretend Wife (2009) 164 copies
Girl Talk (2001) 161 copies
The Nobodies (2005) 158 copies
The Prince of Fenway Park (2009) 119 copies
The Somebodies (2006) 104 copies
The Miss America Family (2002) 100 copies

Associated Works

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributor — 362 copies
American Girls About Town (2004) — Contributor — 308 copies
The Best American Poetry 2000 (2000) — Contributor — 213 copies
Robot Uprisings (2014) — Contributor — 185 copies
Lit Riffs (2004) — Contributor — 167 copies
Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday (2004) — Contributor — 164 copies
The Best American Poetry 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 85 copies
The Best American Poetry 2012 (2012) — Contributor — 83 copies

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Ugh. I kept waiting for something to happen, but the writer was too busy showing how awful a post-nuclear world was.

Did I say ugh?
 
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jazzbird61 | 105 other reviews | Feb 29, 2024 |
Great author! Beautiful descriptions of a loving marriage, the challenges of parenthood and family relationships, and life in France.
 
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ajrenshaw99 | 22 other reviews | Sep 1, 2023 |
After a big explosion, the main girl fused with a doll. While her grandfather had a fan merged into his body after being exposed to a massive, destructive explosion that destroyed the world as we knew it? It’s impossible. How could it be? With plastic, glass, and steel melted into their bodies, how are these people still alive without infection?

The genesis of Baggott’s new world order also intrigued me. I still find this part of the narrative irritating, despite understanding its importance.

The author had an idea that could make a great story. This book takes place in a dystopian future where people live inside the dome under strict rules and regulations. Partridge longs for escape and wants to discover the truth about the world they left behind. In the world outside the Dome, Pressia lives in fear for the mutants that were created by the detonations decades ago. Pure is a story of lies, radiation, friendships, and conspiracies... But what is more important: safety or freedom?

There was the potential for it to be fantastic. It could have been amazing.

The characters are fine, the action scenes are decent, and the author did not water down the cruelty and violence. How poorly the author handles plot twists is something I dislike.The author builds the world poorly, and I don't like it. The villains kill people for no reason at the end, which I dislike.

Even though I didn’t hate this book, I felt let down by Baggott’s plotting.

There is no guarantee that I will continue the series.
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onlyfiction | 105 other reviews | Jul 18, 2023 |
I really enjoyed this collection. My first reading of this author and I thought the ideas she had and the way she drew them out and concluded were brilliant. I will be seeking out more by the writer and highly recommend this collection.
 
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jldarden | Jun 19, 2023 |

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Works
39
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Members
5,102
Popularity
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Rating
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Reviews
287
ISBNs
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