With keen insight into teenage life, Ellen Wittlinger delivers a story of adolescence that is fierce and funny - and ultimately transforming - even as it explores the pain of growing up. On the sandy beaches by the Bluefish Wharf Inn, John realizes just how hard love can be. I dont lie, and I dont waste time on people who do. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. Printz Honor Book, and received critical attention from the American Library. Ellen Wittlinger - Hard Love (1999) 3 Sourced Quotes View all Ellen Wittlinger Quotes Its a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. Desperately hoping to fix things, John convinces Marisol to come with him to a zine conference on Cape Cod. perhaps her best-known book, Hard Love, which won the Lambda Literary A ward, was selected as a Michael L.

As a graduate student, I expected to feel mildly engaged with Hard Love but to my surprise, I became deeply involved with this work. Unfortunately, John mistakes this growing intimacy for love, and a disastrous date to his junior prom leaves that friendship in ruins. Jaded junior high and high school students, young college students and parents alike will be amazed at Wittlingers perceptive, hard-hitting, complex young adult novel. Hard Love Ellen Wittlinger, Runaway Bride (Wildflower)Ann Carberry, The Great Game Of Business: Unlocking The Power And Profitability Of Open-Book ManagementJack Stack, Botany For Young People And Common Schools: How Plants Grow, A Simple Introduction To Structural Botany : With A Popular Flora, Or An Arrangement And. While at first their friendship is based on zines, dysfuntional families, and dreams of escape, soon both John and Marisol begin to shed their protective shells. On the sandy beaches by the Bluefish Wharf Inn, John realizes just how hard love can be. It's no wonder John writes articles like 'Interview with the Stepfather' and 'Memoirs from Hell.' The only release he finds is in homemade zines like the amazing Escape Velocity by Marisol, a self-proclaimed 'Puerto Rican Cuban Yankee Lesbian.' Haning around the Boston Tower Records for the new issue of Escape Velocity, John meets Marisol and a hard love is born. Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiancé wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son.

Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger