Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett
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Publication Date: August 10, 2009
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Undiscovered Gyrl, Allison Burnett, Vintage Books.
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt is taking a year off before college to find her passion. Ambitious in her own way, Katie intends to do more than just smoke with her boyfriend, Rory, and work at the bookstore. She plans to seduce Dan, a thirty-two-year-old film professor.
Katie chronicles her adventures in an anonymous blog, telling strangers her innermost desires, shames, and thrills. But when Dan stops taking her calls, when her alcoholic father lands in the hospital, and when she finds herself drawn into a dangerous new relationship, Katie’s fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge.
Sexually frank, often heartbreaking, and bursting with devilish humor, Undiscovered Gyrl is an extraordinarily accomplished novel of ide ntity, voyeurism, and deceit.
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Book Review: Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett. Veronique de Turenne -- Los Angeles Times
“Insightful and hilarious” -- Publishers Weekly
“With an unreliable narrator and a perspective limited to what her protagonist writes in her blog, Burnett creates an often-shocking account of a very troubled young woman forced to face her dire problems with only the help of her loyal readers, strangers who don’t even know her real name.” --- Booklist
“Undiscovered Gyrl takes a turn you'll never see coming. In an instant, the book becomes something to reread, reinterpret and rethink. It's all so deep, crying for explanation. And that's where Allison Burnett commits the ultimate act of selflessness: he lets you figure it out for yourself.” -- Laura Hamlett, Playback: Stl
“Imagine an 18-year-old Lolita, updated for the 21st century, blogging her own provocative adventures. By turns charming and crude, disturbingly reckless and achingly tender, Undiscovered Gyrl seduces you into her downy arms, locks her long legs around your waist, and doesn’t let go.” -- Rachel Resnick, author of Love Junkie
“Allison Burnett has magically brewed an addictive elixir. Blogging, self-absorption, and bad behavior slowly build into a touching and deeply moving narrative, yet Burnett chooses to serve this concoction unadorned, a shot of vodka—all the better to feel the ending’s burn. If you’ve ever been tempted to dismiss the next generation, read this book.” -- Amanda Boyden, author of Pretty Little Dirty and Babylon Rolling