Treasure Island!!!
When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.
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Treasure Island!!!
When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.
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Treasure Island!!!

Treasure Island!!!

by Sara Levine

Narrated by Emily Durante

Unabridged — 4 hours, 47 minutes

Treasure Island!!!

Treasure Island!!!

by Sara Levine

Narrated by Emily Durante

Unabridged — 4 hours, 47 minutes

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Overview

When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.

Editorial Reviews

Rebecca Barry

Levine is a wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice. Treasure Island!!! is a rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent. In her strong-willed protagonist, Levine has created a quintessential unreliable narrator, one who sees other people's flaws perfectly and almost never her own, who feints and dodges nimbly around her deep feelings and questionable mental stability like a sailor dancing the hornpipe.
—The New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

Unstoppably funny.”—Susannah Sonnenberg, The San Francisco Chronicle

"Treasure Island!!! is outrageous, surprising, frightening, and funny—a hip grandchild of Poe, Nabokov and Peanuts' Lucy Van Pelt.”—Mark O'Donnell, writer and humorist

“A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent.”—Rebecca Barry, The New York Times

“Levine sports an original, brutally witty voice.”—Kristi Lanier, The Washington Post

“Levine’s voice is a wild ride.”—Aimee Bender, author

“Had Grace Paley spent her youth hanging out with Larry David, listening to the Ramones, and reading Stanley Elkin, she’d have probably written something like Treasure Island!!!”—Adam Levin

“Insane, hilarious, and irreverent.”—Alice Sebold, author

“Why don't you throw yourself headlong into the TORNADO OF CHAOS that is the protagonist of Sara Levine's Treasure Island!!!—especially if you enjoyed the television program Fleabag?”—Molly Young, Vulture

“Highly original…will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator.”—Library Journal

Time Out Chicago

"Levine...is a tremendously funny writer."

Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Levine's subtle insight about the egocentric nature of our society is knife-sharp."

The Boston Bibliophile

"I laughed my way through...this addictive little pageturner."

The Washington Post

"Levine sports an original, brutally witty voice."

The New York Times

"An absurdist comedy of suburbia."

New York Times Book Review

"Levine is a wonderful storyteller with a vibrant voice. “Treasure Island!!!” is a rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent."

Product Details

BN ID: 2940175670111
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Publication date: 01/24/2012
Edition description: Unabridged
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