The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Sophomore Frankie becomes fascinated by an all-male secret society and begins to expose how it works from the outside. Using both her romantic life and her intelligence, she unsettles the school’s power structure in a sharp YA novel.
Work Information
A high school girl’s perspective begins to shake an all-male secret society from within.
Frankie uses both romance and intelligence to question the school’s exclusionary order. With humor intact, the novel cuts sharply into the dynamics of gender and organization.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Disney Book Group
- Published
- 2008-03-25
- Pages
- 352 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780786838189
- ISBN-10
- 0786838183
- Price
- 6716 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Humor
Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14: Debate Club. Her father's "bunny rabbit." A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school. Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15: A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston. Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take "no" for an answer. Especially when "no" means she's excluded from her boyfriend's all-male secret society. Not when her ex-boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places. Not when she knows she's smarter than any of them. When she knows Matthew's lying to her. And when there are so many, many pranks to be done. Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16: Possibly a criminal mastermind. This is the story of how she got that way.
E. Lockhart is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud . Her other books include Fly on the Wall , Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks , and the Ruby Oliver Quartet: The Boyfriend List , The Boy Book , The Treasure Map of Boys , and Real Live Boyfriends . Emily lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at EmilyLockhart.com and follow @elockhart on Twitter.
Reviews
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Excellent !
The combination of sophisticated words, a gripping plot line and characters to fall in love with, meant that i could not put the book down! I loved it
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Regular
Las recomendaciones eran demasiado buenas, pero no me atrapó, el personaje principal me parece extraño, y resulta algo aburrido Hay mejores opciones de literatura YA
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Sinossi ingannevole
Mi aspettavo un libro differente. Dalla quarta di copertina pensavo che Frankie sarebbe stata una sorta di Dr. Horrible di Whedon, una ragazzina che diventava un genio del crimine partendo dalla propria scuola e dalla propria quotidianità. Magari condito con una ribellione femminista contro una società maschilista. E invece niente. Frankie è una ragazzina che vuole entrare a far parte dell'elite maschile della sua esclusivissima scuola (di cui fa parte il suo ragazzo), e per fare questa cosa invece impossibile si finge il capo dell'elite e via mail guida gli scherzi del club di elite. E tutto per essere considerata di più dal suo ragazzo, e per poter entrare nel circolo dei "vip tra i vip" e snobbare gli altri come loro li snobbano. Il tutto condito, per non farci mancare niente, da una completa assenza di introspezione psicologica e dall'impossibilità di provare una qualsivoglia simpatia nei confronti dei personaggi. Peccato, la quarta di copertina mi era piaciuta.
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A thoroughly disreputable tale.
The bastard child of Attwood's `Handmaid's Tale' and the `Chalet School' series. Elements of mystery and adventure stories, mixed with a healthy dose of feminist reality pervade this teenage fable set in an exclusive American private school with a boys-only secret society at its heart. Tired of being excluded from the inner workings of her new boyfriend's clique of alpha males, Frankie Landau-Banks succeeds in piercing their veil of secrecy and begins to shake things up for the staff and students at Alabaster Prep. Lockhart's triumph is in having Frankie undo the corset of expectations, the gamut of aspirations and constraints that family, friends and communities lace women and girls up in, and demolish it eagerly. Frankie herself is not a self-conscious feminist, but rather a postmodern feminist faced with a less-than-modern boy's club. Writing in deceptively accessible English, Lockhart relates a carefully subversive story that most teachers couldn't justify confiscating- but it might just start a revolution if the right people read it.The book's themes mean it is probably most appropriate for women and girls aged 12+, although it will probably speak more to those with life experience on their side, not least because of the wry, witty commentary from the book's 'narrator',who I strongly suspect is in fact an older Frankie. With that in mind, I hope to see further instalments documenting her career and time at college emerge in years to come.
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Sanfter, sympathischer Feminismus für Teenies
Ein schönes Buch, das mit einer sehr liebenswürdigen Protagonistin eine kleine, aber clevere Geschichte im "Boarding School Genre" erzählt. Ausnahmsweise mal nicht britisch sondern amerikanisch, womit man das Thema "Secret Society" anschneiden kann. Natürlich ohne direkt mit "Skull and Bones" Verschwörungstheorien um sich zu werfen, sondern harmlos und dem Publikum angemessen. Angenehm. Die, nennen wir es mal Ideen Frankies sind herrlich kreativ und brachten mich mehrfach zum Lachen. Fazit: Man muss nicht immer mit Fanfaren "Girl Power" schmettern, die subtilere Variante ist manchmal effizienter. Empfehlenswert, auch für Erwachsene sehr zum Schmunzeln.