Treasure Island!!!

Name: Treasure Island!!!
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Sara Levine
ISBN: 9781611206029

Author: Sara Levine

Narrator: Emily Durante

Unabridged: 4 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 01/24/2012

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broke 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? Convinced 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.

About Sara Levine

Sara Levine teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, Sonora Review, and other magazines.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on August 07, 2019

Can’t wait for Sara Levine’s follow up. Will it be Bleak House!!! or maybe A La Recherche du Temps Perdu!!!.... One thing I figured out immediately, having recently failed to finish The Shipping Gnus by E Annie Proulx – the one that won the Pulitzer - Treasure Island!!! is clearly not literature beca......more

Goodreads review by Eileen on March 17, 2012

In theory, I should like this book. In reality, it reads like a series of real-life episodes of Alvin and the Chipmunks, with a horrifically unlikeable narrator blundering forward into scheme upon wacky scheme, each of which are apparently intended as farcical comedy, but which instead crumble into......more

Goodreads review by Oriana on February 28, 2013

Here's a text conversation I had with my friend Megan: M: Have you read Treasure Island!!! by Sarah Levine? O: No! What is it? M: Um, a book. You may like it. O: Ha, okay. [Megan brings me the book, which I dutifully add to my terrifyingly high, teetering to-read stack. A month passes. I read this and th......more

Goodreads review by elena on August 10, 2021

4.5/5 Next time someone says they don't mind unlikeable protagonists I'm going to give them this book to see if they're full of shit......more

Goodreads review by Emily on July 14, 2020

This is just one of those books that feels like it was written for me! For fellow fans of weirdo women protagonists with questionable judgment a la The Pisces and My Year of Rest and Relaxation, this book is such a fun little flash of brilliance and you should read it! I laughed a lot and will defin......more