Admission. Part 38

The White Rose.

The Sabbathday River.

A Jury of Her Peers.

Praise for ADMISSION.

"An intimate tale... [A book] you can't put down."

-O, The Oprah Magazine.

"Compelling... built-in appeal for anyone seeking insight about the ferocious compet.i.tion... Early decision? Recommended."

-People.

"Challenges readers to grasp the importance of what we admit to ourselves... intricately plotted... not yet another stereotypical look at crazed applicants... allows students (and parents) to feel that the people making decisions are fallible humans."

-Chicago Tribune "Gleams with acute insights into what most consider a deeply mysterious process."

-The New Yorker "A skillfully subversive novel... What I found most moving about the novel is the way Portia's past resonates with the present in the applications she reviews... ADMISSION succeeds because like a persuasive application essay... Korelitz makes the personal universal by connecting her character's dilemma to larger issues that concern us all: how we will educate our children and how we want to live."

-Philadelphia Inquirer.

"An intelligently written, thoughtful novel... The realism is impressive... Korelitz has created a complicated heroine who is nonetheless easy to love, and readers... will be pulling for Portia just as powerfully as she roots for the applicants she falls in love with every year."

-Christian Science Monitor "A great read... a reminder of what it's like to read a book by a writer whose style calls attention not to itself but to the story it tells... Her portrayal of the staggeringly compet.i.tive and complex process of selecting students for Ivy League schools is fascinating."

-Arizona Republic.

"Vividly portrays the atmosphere and details of Nathan's job as her personal story unfolds... fascinating for those of us who've gotten good or bad news from colleges... or shepherded ambitious children through the gauntlet of the application process... A good read. And if you have any interest in the merry-go-round of big-time college admissions, it's even better."

-Sunday Denver Post "Gripping portrait of a woman in crisis from the extremely gifted Korelitz... Strongly plotted, crowded with full-bodied characters, and as thoughtful about 'this national hysteria over college admissions' as it is about the protagonist's complex personality-a fine, moving example of traditional realistic fiction."

-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A page-turner... Rich in smarts and romance, it's an A+!"

-SELF Magazine.

"A fascinating look at the complex college admissions process and what can happen when ghosts from the past pop up to turn a life upside down."

-Tucson Citizen "Engaging... suspenseful... Vividly brings to life the incredible stress borne by admissions workers... highly recommended."

-Library Journal.

"Exciting... this heartwarming tale is enough to keep the pages turning... transcends into something surprising."

-Roanoke Times "A big, chewy novel that reveals the secrets of a place many prospects find more mysterious than the Pentagon... Korelitz has more in common with popular feminist writers of the 1970s... than with the recent wave of 'admissions-lit' books that explore chi-chi Manhattan private schools... Korelitz is interested in people and ideas, not clothes and status symbols. She's didactic, but entertainingly so, managing to combine earnest pa.s.sages on admissions standards with a complex plot... in the end I'd have to mark her file 'High priority-admit.' "

-Bloomberg.com "Jean Hanff Korelitz shows her firsthand experience in the details of this superb, beautifully moody novel... saying more would ruin the rich surprises this book holds."

-BookPage.

"Interesting, thought-provoking, and well written... I never thought it was possible to make the college admissions process sound interesting in literary fiction, but Jean Hanff Korelitz has done that... Korelitz did an excellent job of getting inside the head of an admissions officer on-the-job... I give it a strong recommendation to any college-expectant parent, or any college-bound student, who also loves to read."

-American Chronicle.

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