Treasure Island!!!, Paperback/Sara Levine

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A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure: "A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent" ( The New York Times ). When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island , she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned. Treasure Island is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice--"insane, hilarious, and irreverent" (Alice Sebold). "Highly original . . . will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator."-- Library Journal "A hoot."-- Kirkus Reviews About the Author Sara Levine teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her stories have appeared in The Iowa Review , Nerve , Conjunctions , Necessary Fiction , Sonora Review , and other magazines. She won a 2008 Bridport Prize for Fiction, a Special Mention in The Pushcart Anthology , and three citations in The Best American Essays . Her writing has been anthologized in Best of Fence: The First Nine Years and The Touchstone Anthology of Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present .