Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

Name: Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780060786540

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe

Abridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/14/2004

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes

Synopsis

Matt Donaghy has always been a Big Mouth. But it's never gotten him in trouble -- until the day Matt is accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High School.Ursula Riggs has always been an Ugly Girl. A loner with fierce, staring eyes, Ursula has no time for petty high school stuff like friends and dating -- or at least that's what she tells herself Ursula is content with minding her own business. And she doesn't even really know Matt Donaghy.But Ursula is the only person who knows what Matt really said that day ... and she is the only one who can help him.In her first novel for young adults, acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has created a provocative and unflinching story of friendship and family, and of loyalty and betrayal.Performed by Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

About Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Boys Don't Cry. Among her other films are The Gift, The Affair of the Necklace and Insomnia.

About Chad Lowe

Chad Lowe, an Emmy Award winning actor, has starred in such television series as Life Goes On, E.R., Now and Again and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valerie on October 12, 2008

"Ugly Girl" is a high school student (aka Ursula Riggs) who has built up walls around herself. Walls that protect her from the insensitivity of others (including her own disinterested family), and from changes and emotions that she doesn't want to (or can't) deal with in her life. Ugly Girl isn't af......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on November 21, 2012

Give this book to every tween and teen you know. Adults, you should read it too. It's a fast read, a day or two at most, and the pages are filled with a sparse, honest prose that creates two characters who somehow manage to be outcasts and everygirl/boy at the same time. You know that teenage experi......more

Goodreads review by Robert on January 22, 2008

Joyce Carol Oates, Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (Harper, 2002) Okay, I admit it. I'm a sucker for books like this. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl into pickle. Boy gets girl out of pickle. Boy gets pickle into girl. They all live happily ever after. Now turn that formula on its head. Big Mouth......more

Goodreads review by Tim on December 04, 2018

Mαζί με το ΄Κρυφό ημερολόγιο του Έιντριαν Μόουλ' της Σου Τάουνσεντ (1982) αποτελούν το δίδυμο του 'απόλυτου' εφηβικού μυθιστορήματος, όπου το χιούμορ, η πολιτική ορθότητα, οι δυσκολίες της εφηβικής ηλικίας και τα κοινωνικά προβλήματα 'κονταροχτυπιούνται' με τον δημιουργικότερο, απολαυστικότερο και ρ......more

Goodreads review by Anna Maja on April 05, 2022

Jag har läst den här boken så många gånger då den varit en favorit sen jag var tonåring. Jag inser att en anledning till att jag älskar den idag är nostalgin jag känner när jag läser den, för felfri är den ju inte.......more