Property of
By: Alice Hoffman.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: FSG classics
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780374531836
Subjects: Teenage girls -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Gang members -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "In telling the story of a young outsider who is obsessed with her gang-leader lover, McKay, but unwilling to commit to becoming one of 'the Property of the Orphans' -- the tough girls who belong to the boys on the avenue -- Hoffman explores hard truths about how difficult it is to love another, and yet how much more difficult it is to pull away."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Reprint of the 1977 edition, with a new introduction by the author.