Girl in the arena a novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Online Access: | Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
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| Summary: | In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena. |
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| Physical Description: | 324 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781599903729 1599903725 |
| Author Notes: | Lise Haines is Writer in Residence at Emerson College, has held a Briggs-Copeland lectureship at Harvard, and was a finalist for the PEN Nelson Algren Award and the Paterson Fiction Prize. She is the author of two adult novels, In My Sister's Country and Small Acts of Sex and Electricity , as well as many essays and short stories. Girl in the Arena is her first work for young adults. She lives in the Boston area. |
