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And Now You Can Go

By Vendela Vida

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| Hardcover | 9781400040278

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Book Description

A sharply humorous, fast-paced debut novel about the effects—some predictable, some wildly unexpected—that an encounter at gunpoint can have on the life of a (previously) assured young woman.

The gun in question is pointed at twenty-one-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New YoContinue

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And Now You Can Go

And Now You Can Go Vendela Vida Knopf Hardcover 208 pages August 2003 Twenty-one year old Ellis is just an ordinary Columbia graduate student -- until she is accosted and held up at gun point in Riverside Park. The assailant insists he has no intenti ... (read full critics)

curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

And Now You Can Go

, a story so tenderly conveyed it feels familiar. Vida's heroine, Ellis, seems surprised by the extent to which this violent encounter has affected her, surprised by her capacity to feel vulnerable. Ellis' troubles are more complicated than overcomin ... (read full critics)

austinchronicle published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010