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Girls in trucks

Sarah Walters knows she doesn't really fit in at the Cotillion Training School, that she'll never live up to the legacy of her mother and grandmother as a Camellia - the society for proper young Southern belles. As soon as she's out of school, Sarah and a group of friends forsake the South for the bright lights of New York City.

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  • "Na hun traditionele, ouderwetse meisjesopvoeding in Charleston, South Carolina, komt ook voor Sarah en haar vriendinnen de tijd om voor een universitaire studie naar Yale te vertrekken."
  • ""But it's not easy to be good, particularly in those summers when she and her friend run into wild Island boys in pickup trucks. When Sarah heads north to college and New York, she finds a world very different from the one promised to her by the Camellias. The girls don't say "ma'am"; the boys don't act like gentlemen. And then there's love, which comes to Sarah in the form of Max, a passionate yet emotionally closed older man who leads Sarah to her dark side and then leaves her alone to find her way back." "Events bring Sarah home to Charleston and give her a good, fresh look at her beginnings. The revelation of her mother's secret - one of many sights now plain to Sarah's eyes - shows her that the motto of her girlhood, "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia," has more truth to it than she had ever guessed."--Jacket."
  • "Sarah Walters knows she doesn't really fit in at the Cotillion Training School, that she'll never live up to the legacy of her mother and grandmother as a Camellia - the society for proper young Southern belles. As soon as she's out of school, Sarah and a group of friends forsake the South for the bright lights of New York City."@en
  • "Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her Southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced Southerners struggle to make sense of the city's sophistication."@en
  • "Sarah Walters becomes increasingly disenchanted with undercurrents of barbarism in her Southern community and relocates to New York, where she and fellow displaced Southerners struggle to make sense of the city's sophistication."
  • "Charleston debutant Sarah Walters moves to New York to attend college and learns that the lessons taught at the Cotillion Training School do not necessarily apply to relationships in the big city."
  • "Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.) But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind. When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best. Girls in Trucks> introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent."@en
  • ""Meet Sarah Walters, a Charleston debutante with questionable manners and an inherited weakness for bad ideas. Sarah's brilliant older sister just dropped out of Yale to run off with an unstable graduate student from Africa. Her beautiful mother lectures her incessantly on the importance of good etiquette but tends to act cold and mysterious after she's had her nightly gin. Still, Sarah tries to follow the rules set by the Camellia Society, the creators of the debutante code. After all, this is Charleston. Decorum means everything." Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honoured customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things Camellias 'don't' do. But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism beneath all that propriety and decamps to New York City."
  • "Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks). But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind. When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"--And to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best. -- Publisher detail."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Bildungsromans"
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  • "Girls in trucks : a novel"
  • "Girls in trucks"
  • "Girls in trucks"@en
  • "Girls in trucks : stories"@en
  • "Girls in trucks a novel"@en

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