Product Description

New novel from the bestselling author of BIG MOUTH AND UGLY GIRL. To the outside world, Franky Pierson is a lucky girl with a charmed life. With a celebrity dad -- TV sports commentator, Reid Pierson -- and beautiful artist mother, living in a state-of-the-art designer home and wanting for nothing, their world could be described as perfect. And Franky could almost believe this is true -- after all, her father keeps on telling her that it is and she would never disagree with him. But in that case, why does is her mother spending time away from home? And how come her step-brother is barely speaking, and her little sister won't stop whining? Why are they all provoking dad in this way? Freaky Green Eyes knows the answers. Freaky Green Eyes is Franky's inner self. Only she dares to look at Franky's life and dare to suggest that all is not as it should be in the Pierson household. But is she strong enough to do anything about it -- before something really terrible happens? A really compelling and eye-opening novel that keeps you turning pages from beginning to end.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145839 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
"The relationship between Ursula and Matt grows, credibly and compellingly, against a convincing high school backdrop. Readers will relate to the pressures these two experience, both at school and from their parents, and be gratified by their ability to emerge the wiser." Publisher's Weekly Praise for Joyce Carol Oates' writing: "Miss Oates is one of our most audaciously talented writers. Her gift is so large, her fluency in different genres -- poems, short stories, novels, essays -- so great, that at times she seems to challenge the ability of readers to keep up with her." Erica Jong "One of the greatest writers of our time." John Gardner

About the Author
Born in upstate New York in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. She has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pen / Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres, all published within the past twenty-five years, and is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

Customer Reviews

A gripping novel
The interesting novel Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates is about a family wich is destroyed and separated by awful events.
Francesca Pierson is a 15-year-old girl, living in a dysfunctional family where the father abuses the mother. Francesca develops a split personality, Freaky Green Eyes, who she needs to manage her horrible situaltion in her home.
The reader recognizes that the story is about a way of life based on lies and truth. This study of opposites gives much information about what each kind of characterthinks and this provides suspense.

Exciting Thriller
The novel Freaky Green Eyes written by Joyce Carol Oates is about a fifteen-year old girl named Francesca who has problems with her family.

Francesca's mother moves away from home and this causes the destruction of the family.

Freaky Green Eyes is an exciting first-person thriller which shows how a normal family can break down.

Oates is able to give the reader an interesting sight into the life of a teenager who wants to defend her family but does not see the truth.

Although the first part is bit too long, the book is fascinating.