{"product_id":"treasure-island-9781609450618","title":"Treasure Island!!!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure: \"A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken 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?\u003cbr\u003eConvinced 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. \u003cem\u003eTreasure Island   \u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice--\"insane, hilarious, and irreverent\" (Alice Sebold). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Highly original . . . will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A hoot.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara Levine teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNerve\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSonora Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines. She won a 2008 Bridport Prize for Fiction, a Special Mention in \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, and three citations in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eBest of Fence: The First Nine Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Touchstone Anthology of Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631345766674,"sku":"9781609450618","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f9756bfe-6257-472b-976b-965879934a7f.jpg?v=1732770179","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/treasure-island-9781609450618","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}