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Roth, Ty

So Shelly

329 pp. | Delacorte | February, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-385-73958-0 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-385-90794-1 $20.99
(3) YA Poets Byron, Keats, and Shelley (here a girl named Shelly) are re-imagined as modern teenagers in Roth's impassioned tribute to Romanticism. Shy outsider John Keats recounts events leading to Shelly's suicide, as he and handsome, self-obsessed Gordon Byron fulfill her final wishes. High school is just a backdrop to the writers' central preoccupations with sex, death, love, and escaping their tragically dysfunctional families.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams

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