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Colleen Curran

Author of Whores on the Hill: A Novel

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This collection of essays by women on weddings is entertaining and occasionally moving.
 
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cygnoir | 4 other reviews | Jun 27, 2020 |
Very juvenile and kind of depressing. But I liked it. Curran's writing style is breathless and evocative and I probably would have tried to imitate her style had I discovered her during my creative writing college days.
The story is about three teenage girls and they're wild high school lives....everything you think will happen, happens. But Curran's writing style makes it worthwhile, I think.
 
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KristySP | 5 other reviews | Apr 21, 2013 |
A wildly uneven but engrossing story of bad girls in the late 1980's. Enough parallels with my own tarnished high school career that I stuck it out. Curran has a lot of promise, I think. Her writing is very vivid, very intense, but she tends to telegraph the upcoming plot twists a little too clearly.
 
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satyridae | 5 other reviews | Apr 5, 2013 |
This book is a series of episodes in a small group of teenage girl's lives. They meet at their private catholic all-girls school and become friends. They fight and make up, they deal with boys and dating, and they develop a reputation as "Whores" which they learn to embrace. Ultimately, the story is a tragedy, as their lives are forever changed. It is a story about friendship and fitting in and coming of age in the 1980s.
 
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stacyinthecity | 5 other reviews | Oct 31, 2010 |

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