Under the Rose - An Ivy League Novel

Zusatztext “Impossible to put down.... Peterfreund offers an intimate view of the modus operandi of a college society.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Diana Peterfreund is the author of Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown, among other novels. She graduated from Yale University in 2001 with degrees in geology and literature. A former food critic, she now lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and writes full-time. 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. Now a senior at Eli University, Amy is looking her future squarely in the eye-until someone starts selling society secrets. When a female member mysteriously disappears and a series of bizarre messages suggests conspiracy within the ranks, no member of Rose & Grave is safe . . . or above suspicion. On Amy's side, the other women in Rose & Grave remain loyal. Against her? A group of Rose & Grave's überpowerful patriarchs who want their old boys' club back. As new developments in her love life threaten to explode, and the search for the missing girl takes a disturbing turn, Amy will need to use every society maneuver she's ever learned in order to stay one step ahead. Even if it means turning to old adversaries for help-or looking for her real enemies closer than she'd thought. Leseprobe I hereby confess: We aren’t like other college students. 1. Stragglers It was shopping period at Eli University, and lest you think this is one of those books about fashion, let me enlighten you. The students at Eli were not shopping for Prada, but for Proust; they weren’t hunting for good bargains, but rather, for gut classes; and they would happily surrender Fendi at forty percent off to secure a Fractals section that wasn’t all the way up on Science Hill. As a senior, I found this shopping period especially poignant. It was my penultimate chance to discover the hidden gem seminar, the one I’d look back on in the cold, post-Eli future as being one of those bright college days the song* speaks of. My last chance, in many cases, to take the famous lectures given by the college’s most notorious luminaries. “What? You didn’t take Herbert Branch’s Shakespeare class?” future employers will say with incredulity. “Why, Amy Haskel, what were you doing there at Eli?” And I will not be able to tell them, because I swore an oath never to reveal the truth: that while other Literature majors were shopping the Branch class, I was crouching in the shadows on a cold stone floor, garbed in a long black hooded robe and a skull-shaped mask, rehearsing an esoteric initiation ritual that required me to lie in wait for an innocent classmate to wander by so I could leap out, pelt his face with phosphorescent dust, and yell “Boo.” As if I’d admit to something like that anyway. “Hey, Lil’ Demon!” I called down the stairs. “I sort of wanted to shop a seminar this afternoon, so can we non-speaking parts adjourn for the day?” Keyser Soze, a.k.a. Joshua Silver, popped up from behind a tower of human remains. “The Branch class? I wanted to take that, too.” Figures. Branch was a brand-name professor at Eli, and it would suit Josh’s political aspirations to add the scholar’s reputation to his C.V. Lil’ Demon, currently levitating over a pool of blood, raised one perfectly plucked eyebrow and blew a strand of chestnut brown hair (she’d had it dyed over the summer) out of her eyes. “I should have gone union,” she said with a sniff. “You people just don’t unders...

Product details

• Authors: Diana Peterfreund
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2007
• EAN: 9780385340038
• ISBN: 978-0-385-34003-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 209 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Secret Society Girl; Secret Society Girl
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature