Property of (Pavanne Books) |
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Author:
Alice Hoffman
By Macmillan
Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780330269254
ISBN: 0330269259
Label: Macmillan
Manufacturer: Macmillan
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1983-03-11
Publisher: Macmillan
Studio: Macmillan |
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Not MY Property!, 2008-04-13
I didn't like this book or any of the characters and make no bones about it. I thought the protagonist, who is never given a name is a Grade-A fool.
See, this stupid girl wants to be a gang deb. She has no other connections that we know of other than this guy named McKay and the gang and the girls' auxillary version of that gang. She pals around with this not too bright candy addict with the ghastly nickname of Danny the Sweet, or even worse, "The Sweet."
The stupid girl sees the seamy, violent underside of life via this gang. Girls are referred to as "The Property" and are treated steps below chattel. Very enlighted thinking, eh?
I did not like this book at all and cannot in good conscience recommend it.
Property of nobody, 2007-10-20
This book is brilliant. The darkness of the subject matter conveys the mixed and obsessive emotions that often accompany teenage lives. It is not Hoffman's intention that you should love the characters, nor that the reader approve of them but it does not end on a dismal note. It seems that many have missed the entire point of this novel. The ending is very hopeful as the narrator finds her way through the dark relationships of her teen years and emerges with a sense of self, indicated by her acknowledging she has a name of her own. It is fascinating reading and the sense that beneath the girl's attitude lurks an intelligent and far more able person than she allows herself to acknowledge. Teenagers put themselves down a great deal and compensate by 'bigging' it up. This book demonstrates perfectly the mind set of a need to belong at whatever cost to the self.
Excellent, fives stars all the way.
Not MY Property!, 2008-04-13
I didn't like this book or any of the characters and make no bones about it. I thought the protagonist, who is never given a name is a Grade-A fool.
See, this stupid girl wants to be a gang deb. She has no other connections that we know of other than this guy named McKay and the gang and the girls' auxillary version of that gang. She pals around with this not too bright candy addict with the ghastly nickname of Danny the Sweet, or even worse, "The Sweet."
The stupid girl sees the seamy, violent underside of life via this gang. Girls are referred to as "The Property" and are treated steps below chattel. Very enlighted thinking, eh?
I did not like this book at all and cannot in good conscience recommend it.
Not MY Property!, 2008-04-13
I didn't like this book or any of the characters and make no bones about it. I thought the protagonist, who is never given a name is a Grade-A fool.
See, this stupid girl wants to be a gang deb. She has no other connections that we know of other than this guy named McKay and the gang and the girls' auxillary version of that gang. She pals around with this not too bright candy addict with the ghastly nickname of Danny the Sweet, or even worse, "The Sweet."
The stupid girl sees the seamy, violent underside of life via this gang. Girls are referred to as "The Property" and are treated steps below chattel. Very enlighted thinking, eh?
I did not like this book at all and cannot in good conscience recommend it.
A dark debut, 2008-01-12
Having read a number of Alice Hoffman's other novels I was surprised at the darkness of her debut, and of its subject matter, the gangs and drug dealers on the streets. I enjoyed it nevertheless, and though it's certainly not her best novel it's perfectly readable, and you don't have to like or approve of the characters to understand them or appreciate the story. It ends on a hopeful note, but there is a lot of darkness and misery along the way. The theme of a woman being drawn to an unsuitable or unlikely man has been done a number of times by Alice Hoffman, and this is perhaps the prototype. She did it better in subsequent novels, but Property Of is still worth a read.
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