| An Egg on Three Sticks Contributor(s): Fischer, Jackie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312317751 ISBN-13: 9780312317751 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: May 2004 Annotation: "You can't stop reading "An Egg on Three Sticks" once you start it. Three pages in, I was hooked." --Billie Letts, author of "Where the Heart Is" "An "Egg on Three Sticks," Jackie Moyer Fischer's absorbing first novel, is as genuine as the voice at its center. Abby, one of the most engaging young narrators since Elizabeth Berg's Katie in "Durable Goods," tells her story with honesty, toughness, and a vulnerability that carries the reader along with a sense of suspense and deep emotional investment to its heartbreaking conclusion. In an impressive and rewarding writerly feat, Fischer manages to make Abby's story funny, entertaining, devastating, and redemptive, all at the same time." --Stephanie Rosenfeld, author of "What About the Love Part?" "Fischer's novel is a spare, unflinching picture of a nuclear family's disintegration. At the same time, it's a nostalgic ride through the goofy, vulnerable years of early adolescence, when stolen hallway kisses, forbidden pulp novels, and super-short miniskirts are of monumental importance." --Emily Jenkins, author of "Mister Posterior and the Genius Child" "In prose both fresh and piercing, Fischer brings us so close to her narrator that we feel what it's like to be thirteen . . . and to be tormented by a potent mixture of love, anger, and guilt as you start to face the hard truths of the adult world. Abby's voice is unfaltering; its honesty and pure tone animates a story of immediate and affecting emotional power." --Anitra Sheen, author of "Things Unspoken" ""An Egg on Three Sticks" is a step into the bewildering world of adolescence. . . . Profound, fresh, funny, it will make you laugh as it breaks your heart." --Tom Spanbauer, author of "In the City of Shy Hunters" "The voice and flow of this funny, sad, life-loving work are so note-perfect that taking in "An Egg on Three Sticks" feels less like reading a novel than hanging out with its unforgettable teenage protagonist Abby Goodman as she lays it all out to you. Fischer's remarkable debut will keep you up at night whizzing through its pages, and will haunt and delight you long afterwards." --Fred Pfeil, author of "White Guys" and "What They Tell You to Forget" "With her poetic writing and honest voice, Fischer has captured a twelve-year-old's description of her mother's breakdown. I'm very much looking forward to Fischer's next book." --Jasmine Paul, author of "A Girl, in Parts" |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003009126 |
| Lexile Measure: 890(Not Available) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 8" L (0.75 lbs) 309 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - San Francisco, California - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Features: Ikids |
| Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2004 pg. 328 Booklist 05/01/2004 pg. 1544 School Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 105 Kliatt 07/01/2004 pg. 17 Booksense '76 May 2004 05/01/2004 pg. 1 Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2004 pg. 381 Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/15/2005 pg. 771 Booklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's 01/01/2005 pg. 771 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 78761 Reading Level: 4.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Finally Abby is thirteen. A real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend, and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far different from what she hoped for. Set in the Bay Area in the '70s, An Egg on Three Sticks is Jackie Moyer Fischer's emotional, funny, and extraordinarily heartfelt novel about Abby's struggle to hold her family together, find love from a mother who has little to give, and simply try to be thirteen. With a voice completely fresh and honest, Abby takes us on a journey that is often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and overwhelmingly hopeful. But a journey no thirteen-year-old should have to take. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fischer, Jackie: - Jackie Moyer Fischer grew up in Saratoga, California, and McMinnville, Oregon. She graduated from Oregon State University (English) and Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law (J.D). She now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and too many cats. She has made peace with the rain and now prefers it to sunshine. |
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