Secret Society Girl - An Ivy League Novel

Zusatztext "Peterfreund’s descriptions of the ambitious Amy Haskel’s collegial life are both vivid and amusing."— The New York Observer "Readers will cheer on the not-so-underdog as she faces disgruntled male alumni and finds that membership does indeed have privileges."— Tampa Tribune "A fun! breezy! beach-perfect diversion … with a myriad of cultural and intellectual references to everything from Eyes Wide Shut to Aristotle's Poetics. "— Winston Salem Journal From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Diana Peterfreund Klappentext Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund's Ivy League novels-Secret Society Girl! Under the Rose! Rites of Spring (Break)! and Tap & Gown. At an elite university! Amy Haskel has been initiated into the country's most notorious secret society. But in this power-hungry world where new blood is at the mercy of old money! hooking up with the wrong people could be fatal. Eli University junior Amy Haskel never expected to be tapped into Rose & Grave. She isn't rich! politically connected! or . . . well! male. So when Amy is one of the first female students to receive the distinctive black-lined invitation with the Rose & Grave seal! she's blown away. Could they really mean her? Whisked off into an elaborate initiation rite! Amy awakens the next day to a new reality and a whole new set of "friends"-from the gorgeous son of a conservative governor to an Afrocentric lesbian activist whose society name is Thorndike. And that's when Amy starts to discover the truth about getting what you wish for. Because Rose & Grave is quickly taking her away from her familiar world of classes and keggers! fueling a feud and undermining a very promising friendship with benefits. And that's before Amy finds out that her first duty as a member of Rose & Grave is to take on a conspiracy of money and power that could! quite possibly! ruin her whole life. Leseprobe Chapter 1 It all began on a day in late April of my junior year. I was in my dorm room, for once, trying to squeeze in a load of laundry between a tuna salad sandwich in the dining hall and my afternoon lecture on War and Peace, or as I like to think of it, WAP. (That’s not an acronym, by the way, but onomatopoeia. It’s the sound the hefty volume makes when I drop it on my desk.) Professor Muravcek’s* lectures tended toward the impenetrable side and I wanted to spend some time brushing up on my notes. I was tilting toward a B in that class, which was unacceptable if I wanted to graduate with honors in the major. However, it was either laundry or rushing out that night to buy a new package of underwear. You know you’re desperate when trekking downtown to GAP Body is easier than waiting for a free dryer. But neither Tide nor Tolstoy was in the cards for me that afternoon. I’d just finished disentangling my disentangling my fuchsia lace thong (Friday night date panties) from the legs of my “going out jeans” and was on my way out the door with a load of darks when the phone rang. Crap. It was probably my mom. She seemed to have a divine sense of when I’d be in my room. I balanced the basket on my hip and picked up the phone. “Hello?” “Amy Maureen Haskel?” “You got her,” I said, shaking one of my balled-up gym socks free. “Your presence is required at 750 College Street, room 400, at two o’clock this afternoon.” Two o’clock was in fifteen minutes. “Who is this?” “750 College Street, room 400. Two p.m.” And then the line went dead. I plopped back onto the faded couch, strewing tank tops and pj bottoms across the floor. Talk about rotten timing. There was no question in my mind who it was on the other end of the phone. Quill & Ink was the “literary” senior society on campus, the usual refuge for scribblers of all varieties. It...

Product details

• Authors: Diana Peterfreund
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2007
• EAN: 9780440243892
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24389-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Secret Society Girl; Secret Society Girl
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature