by Joyce Carol Oates · CRUÏLLA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466117494
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«Sexy» is the young adult novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Cruïlla in hardback (206 pages, in Catalan).
Darren is a shy boy who feels uncomfortable about the attention he receives for being considered attractive. When a teacher takes him home and Darren thinks he perceives an insinuation, the situation becomes complicated: the teacher is unjustly accused of sexual abuse and Darren hesitates over whether to defend him. A story about prejudice and social pressure among young people.
Catalan translation by Josep Sampere i Martí. The Cruïlla edition was published on 14 March 2007.
The book is recommended for readers aged 14 to 18, especially for those seeking realistic novels about identity, social pressure and moral dilemmas.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
