Also includes sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Patricia Mccormick’s Cut. Read Time: 2 hours Full Book Notes and Study Guides Sites like SparkNotes with a Cut study guide or cliff notes. Refusing to sensationalize her subject matter, McCormick steers past the confines of the problem-novel genre with her persuasive view of the teenage experience. Cut by Patricia Mccormick Genre: Young Adult Published: October 30th 2000 Pages: 151 Est. While running the risk of simplifying the healing process, this novel, like Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, sympathetically and authentically renders the difficulties of giving voice to a very real sense of harm and powerlessness. Add to Wish List Link to this Book Add to Bookbag Sell this Book Buy it at Amazon Compare Prices. Similarly, the other girls' problemsDanorexia, overeating, substance abuseDcome to seem (both to themselves and to readers) like attempts to fight off parental or societal obliviousness to their needs: ""It's like we're invisible,"" says a girl during a climactic scene. Click here for the lowest price Paperback, 9780007130313. Through this internalized dialogue, readers become aware of Callie's practice of cutting herself and, more gradually, how her cutting is a response to the dynamics of her damaged family. Callie does not speak aloud for most of the story, but directs her silent commentary chiefly to her therapist. : Cut (9780439324595) by McCormick, Patricia and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. It is not called a loony bin,"" states Callie, the narrator, with characteristic grit. She lives in New York with two children, a husband and two cats.This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders: ""The place is called a residential treatment facility. She has written for The New York Times, Parents Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Ladies Home Journal, Town & Country, More, Reader’s Digest, Mademoiselle and other publications and has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an instructor of creative writing at the New School University.
Her awards include the American Library Association Best Book of the Year, New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenaged and the Children’s Literature Council’s Choice. This was followed by My Brother's Keeper in 2005, about a boy struggling with his brother's addiction and Sold in 2006. Her first novel for teens was Cut, about a young woman who self-injures herself. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986 and an M.F.A. She graduated from Rosemont College in 1978, followed by an M.S. Patricia McCormick is a journalist and writer.
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