![]() It' s true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. But now, on tabloid television, they' re calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe - Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Do." -Stephin Merritt, lead singer of the Magnetic Fields About the Author:īook Description Paperback. "Like no other book, The Basic Eight demands to be read twice. "A funny, unique novel that single- handedly returns high-school revenge fantasies to their rightful owners." -Joanna Torrey, author of Hungry "If you can resist Daniel Handler's hell-raising powers, fair warning: A wicked young century starts here-without you." -Lois Gould, author of Mommy Dressing and Medusa's Gift "Flannery Culp is Holden Caulfield in drag, forty-five years later." -Peter Lefcourt, author of The Woody and Abbreviating Ernie I followed her adventures with admiration and envy because Daniel Handler is one of the sharpest, funniest, and best writers around." -Kit Reed, author of Weird Women, Wired Women ![]() ![]() ![]() "Imagine being young, messed up, and too smart for your own good. "Dazzlingly vertly lyrical, and absolutely without parental supervision, The Basic Eight manages to be amoral and humane simultaneously." -Mark O'Donnell, author of Let Nothing You Dismay and Getting Over Homer ![]()
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