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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2 Feb 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747598819
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747598817
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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Sunday Telegraph, June 16th 2002

"savage and funny" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'The Catcher in the Rye meets The Great Gatsby via American Psycho' Harpers and Queen 'A whacked-out hybrid of Dickens and Salinger ... Compelling and moving' Jac McInerney 'Echoes of Lord of the Flies ... Hip but Gothic, wide-eyed but knowing ... an insight into super-rich corruption' The Times 'A riveting page-turner ... haunting and fascinating' Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fierce People follows the adventures of Finn Earl, a precocious adolescent who yearns to go to South America to live with the Yanomamo Indians (the eponymous Fierce People). Instead, he finds himself dragged by his drug-abusing mother to an even fiercer locale: Vlyvalle, an exclusive, ultra-rich community located in rural New Jersey.

There, Finn finds a world he never knew existed. He is enthralled and intrigued by this world, and is eager to be made one of “the tribe.” He discovers many of the things that ordinary teens discover - drugs, sex, drinking, etc., but his assimilation into this clan of strange and terrible people has repercussions far beyond his wildest imaginings. I do not wish to give away the ending, but the reader will be absorbed, and surprised, all the way up to the final paragraph (which is itself one of the finer paragraphs I’ve seen in any work).

Even as I write this review, the characters in the novel - Liz, Finn’s social-climbing, junkie mother; Osborne, the mysterious, affable, and terrifying billionaire who takes in Liz and her son; Maya, the rich girl of all of our dreams; Bryce, the popular, funny golden boy who defends the down-trodden and parties like there’s no tomorrow; all these characters live on in my mind as actual people even after reading the novel.

The author, Dirk Wittenborn, does a masterful job of showing us both what is most seductive and most hateful about these strange, rich New Jerseyians. With Finn, we are both attracted and repelled by their excess and self-absorption. Wittenborn thus implicates the reader in Finn’s central moral dilemma: is money (vast, huge sums of it, that is) ultimately soul-corrupting?

Fierce People is truly the best book I’ve read this year - the best book I’ve read in rather a long time, actually. It is written with a wry, sly, sense of humor that undercuts and deflates the morality espoused by the characters in the novel, even as it sympathises with them. I am recommending this book to friends as a “must read.” My only quibble with the book is that it leaves one wanting more. Hopefully, Wittenborn will provide us with such in the form of a sequel.

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It was no surprise to discover that author Wittenborn is a screenwriter. Fierce People reads like a movie. The pages just flew by. Loved the range of settings from gritty Lower East Side to the hidden wealth of New Jersey. The book makes clear that no matter how easy Americans have it, their souls still need polishing in order to enjoy all their abundance. A great sociological insight to the American mind.
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A friend sent me by overnight a copy of Dirk Wittenborn's Fierce People. I felt as I were watching a movie and not reading a book. This man can write!Having now lived in the States for five years, I was intrigued by Wittenborn's access and description of the American quiet rich - a unique tribe with their own specific rituals and customs. An enjoyable sociological adventure. I will not reveal the surprising ending.
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UN-PUT-DOWNABLE
- it's funny

- witty dialogue

- is realistic

- drugs, sex, money

- coming of age

- slight mystery too

About a teen... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Stuff buyer
Immensely enjoyable
This is such a great book. I read it about five years ago and although the intricacies of the plot elude me right now, I do remember thoroughly enjoying every moment. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2009 by pjdiddy
My favourite book of all time
This is such an amazing book! Its fast pace and sick twists leave you hanging on every line right up to the very last letter. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2008 by Ms. L. Cawley
pretty vly
This book has been compared to J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” – probably because Wittenborn’s alter ego, like Holden Caulfield, is a... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2004
I dont often read
I am a normal teenager never wanting to read anything apart from a comic. Well my Dad had read fierce people and he told me to read it so i left it on my bed side table and then... Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2003 by "mentaladex"
Thrilling pageturner packed with hidden depth
Wittenborn has to be one of the funniest man on earth to have conceived of this simultaneously dark and funny story about the power - and danger - in having it all. Read more
Published on 18 May 2002 by Kirsten Wittenborn
Anthropological overtones enhance minor novel
Despite the publisher's attempts to link Witterborn's first novel to such luminaries of the form like Dickens and Sallinger (and the author's own cheeky suggestion of a fictional... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2002
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