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English
Tortoise Books
06 August 2019
Jax, a magazine model, has had half her face destroyed in a bomb blast. Drowning in whiskey and self-loathing, she must rebuild her life now that her beauty is gone. Part love letter to New York, part social justice commentary, Moxie is a timely and raw portrayal of the sometimes self-destructive search for identity and redemption.
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Imprint:   Tortoise Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   311g
ISBN:   9781948954020
ISBN 10:   1948954028
Pages:   240
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Moxie

""Poppe's writing is brisk, raw, and unflinching..."" — Booklist ""I tore through Moxie. Alex Poppe has created a character whose jagged contradictions make you stare... [Jax's] a profane alcoholic with a poet's eye and turn of phrase, and her use of language elevates this book."" — Zoe Zolbrod, author of The Telling and Currency ""Wow. I drank down the raw, profane, world-be-damned voice of Jacinda, aka Jax (the sexy protagonist of Poppe's high-octane first novel) in one long gulp."" — Lesley Dormen, author of The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories. ""Moxie is an indie press book that deserves as much attention as it can get. It's smart, fierce, funny, and eventually, ever so slightly uplifting."" — Read Her Like an Open Book ""Sentence fragments litter Moxie as a kind of linguistic shrapnel, accompanied by sharp, descriptive moments that leave the reader off-kilter as Jax goes about her day...Poppe has a deft hand with crude language and body horror and twists these moments into graceful linguistic play ..."" — The Massachusetts Review


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