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Title: Virgins
Author: Caryl Rivers
Narrator: Dara Rosenberg
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-29-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A novel about Catholic girls poised - hilariously- on the brink of going all the way, Virgins recalls in aching detail what it was like to be an 18-year-old Catholic high school senior...in the '50s. This book contains the rules and regimen, hijinks and longing of that time.
Members Reviews:
This is a great book: moving
This is a great book: moving, emotional, smart, engaging. It treats the teen characters with respect. It made me think on every enjoyable page and has stayed with me for months. Highly recommended.
Beautiful, terrifying honesty
Some writers keep us turning pages with their well-crafted plots. Others hold our attention with the beauty of their prose (I'm afraid I'll never be in that category). Pamela Erens has accomplished both with "The Virgins."
It's a heartbreaking story exquisitely written. As a parent, it is frightening to be reminded how hard growing up can be sometimes.
Fascinating narrative voice
I would not normally be drawn to a story about teen lovers in a New England boarding school in 1980, but I nonetheless deeply admire this book. First, the language is beautiful. Every sentence, ever paragraph is a masterpiece, and writers should study them. Second, the narrator is fascinating to me. He's unlikable. He's a voyeur. He's violent toward women. And yet the story he tells about Seung and Aviva, pieced together from details he has learned but mostly a product of his very rich imagination, reveals everything about himself while at the same time painting a vivid portrait of the lovers.
I highly recommend this book.
A modern classic
The story of a senior in a Catholic girl's school and her adventures with her friends and boyfriend.
I had it recommended by two different people, and they were right.
destined to be a classic
Pamela Erens` smashing second novel, THE VIRGINS, is a novel destined to be a classic, mostly because it is so expertly written and expresses such truths, but also because it pulls from many classics all the while inverting them, offering readers a fresh view of that which we thought we knew.
In many ways, the novel's narrator Bruce Bennett-Jones is Nick Carraway to Seung Jung's Gatsby, as Bennett-Jones smugly and expertly narrates all of the action and emotion of the characters around him at his East Coast prep school, especially that of fish-out-of-water turned golden boy, Seung, and his sexy and exotic girlfriend, Aviva. The world that Bennett-Jones creates for us is fully his own, but director that he is, he is completely comfortable showing us the work of those who act around him, casting them, oftentimes, against the grain of expectation.
At the center of Bennett-Jones's world are the beautiful, aspirational couple of Aviva and Seung. Bennett-Jones both covets their relationship and is repulsed by it. He does not wish to posses Aviva in every emotional way that Seung does. Instead, he wishes to ravage her, which could make Seung the hero, the romantic lead, Romeo Montague, and Bennett-Jones the villian. But wait, that is all too simplistic, for Aviva is no Juliet. She is not willing to give up anything for her romance with Seung, certainly not her life.
Aviva wants out. She wants someone who can please her as much as she wants to restrict herself from pleasure. She wants to breathe.
