Loved itgirl in landscape is a space western that abandons much of the irony and dark humor that had denoted lithium's previous novels at that stage and deals with several really difficult themes most notably grief in a really lucid manner
Girl in landscape (1998)
Others: Positive The heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a postapocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony, Pella sets out on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences for the humans in the community, as well as the odd and exotic natives. Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and a homage to the great American tradition of the western.
- ISBN:
- 9780571205943
- Length:
- 280 pages
Genres: science fiction
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