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title: "LIE: A Novel"
brand: "caroline bock"
price: "€ 39.39"
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reviews_count: 8
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# LIE: A Novel

**Brand:** caroline bock
**Price:** € 39.39
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- **What is this?** LIE: A Novel by caroline bock
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			        		&#x201C;Avoiding preachiness, Bock handles the novel&apos;s multiple viewpoints exceptionally well, rotating among the painfully believable voices of high school students and adults. Her characters may keep the truth inside, but their story reads like a confessional.&#x201D; Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)&quot;Realistic and devastatingly insightful, this novel can serve as a springboard to classroom and family discussions. Unusual and important.&#x201D; Kirkus (Starred Review)&#x201C;Told in several voices, Bock creates a suspenseful, gripping, and powerful novel that will keep readers on their toes.&#x201D; Library Journal &quot;Starred Review&quot;
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Prior to focusing on her writing, Caroline Bock headed the marketing and public relations departments at Bravo and IFC cable networks. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she studied creative writing with Raymond Carver, and The City College of New York, where she earned a MFA in fiction. She lives in New York on Long Island. Please visit her at www.carolinebock.com.&#xA0;
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

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    Difficult, sad, enraging read
  

*by P***Y on January 10, 2014*









  
  
    LIE made me angry. Very angry. And sad. I don't think I've ever had such a reaction to a book. Told in 10 different POVs, 5 adults and five teenagers, LIE is the story of a hate crime perpetrated by two popular, racist young men against two Latino young brothers. The older brother dies after being beaten by high school jock Jimmy while friend Sean watched. His girlfriend Skylar knows what really happened, but she has agreed to keep silent. Racism persists throughout these different POVs. At times I wanted to jump into the pages and shake the characters, particularly the adults, but mostly I felt sad that such attitudes really exist in our society.Having 10 POVs was an interesting strategy to tell the story of Jimmy's control and bullying, through the eyes of his peers, Latino coach, his father and the victim's mother and brother. I appreciated Caroline Bock's gritty use of racial insensitive verbiage to show the hearts and minds of the characters. I had empathy of certain characters, while hoping for severe punishment for others,LIE is a difficult, yet important read.
  


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    A thought-provoking look at the lies we tell others...and ourselves
  

*by M***S on February 29, 2012*









  
  
    The premise of Lie springs from past headlines: when a hate crime takes place on Long Island, a group of teenagers agree to lie about what they witnessed that fateful night. Multiple characters offer their particular perspective on the incident, as well as many other incidents that led up to that night. Some of the characters are likable, some are misguided, and some are not likable at all. But together, they construct a storyline that compells you to continue reading. There were some big surprises along the way so that I felt glued to the book until I completed it. This is good, insightful reading that I think belongs on high school reading lists, but it's not just for kids. Adults would also benefit from the lessons learned in the pages of this book. Unfortuately, you never outgrow peer pressure. The question is, what would you do in a similar situation? It's a very compelling, original, and beautifully written book that I recommend highly.
  


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    Gripping
  

*by K***N on June 21, 2012*









  
  
    LIE is just compelling; first, it's a masterful title, which we begin to comprehend as the story develops.  A perfect adolescent read (but I'm a grown-up and I loved it too!); a narrative of a vulnerable young girl's impossible choices when she is deeply, madly in the throes of first love and unable to see the shadow that lurks within her beloved.  This is a timely story, inspired as it is by brutal events that occur all too often. Everybody knows, nobody is talking - this recurrent phrase embodies the narrative arc of the story.  The kids in this book are teenagers with roiling emotions, embryonic good sense and undeveloped ethical judgment, who in some cases have been schooled to hate by their elders.  Here in the midst of a moral quandary lurks the suspense- will they do the right thing? Will they turn towards the good and the true, or will they stay on the path of deception?  Bock manages the ten alternating points of view well - this is not an easy task and she is to be commended for her skill using this strategy to paint a full portrait of a community in crisis.  She gets the "voices" right, so that clear distinctions are drawn between the characters.  And she captures the angst of a generation of young people, both native dwellers and immigrants, as they wrestle with big social problems - disappearing jobs, a faltering economy, rootlessness, xenophobia in the culture at large, and the seeming inability of an older generation to instill core values in its young.
  


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