A Girl's Life Online

Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student and nationally ranked swimmer attending an elite school in an affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-conscious eighth-grader who craved the attention her workaholic parents couldn't give her. "Mark" seemed to understand her; he told her she was smart and wonderful. When they set a date to finally meet while Katie was in Texas for a swim competition, she walked into a hotel room and discovered who-and what-her cyber soul mate really was. In A Girl's Life Online, Tarbox, now eighteen, tells her story-an eye-opening tale of one teenager's descent into the seductive world of the Internet. Tarbox's harrowing experience with her online boyfriend would affect her life for years to come and result in her becoming the first "unnamed minor" to test a federal law enacted to protect kids from online sexual predators. In an age when a new generation is growing up online, Tarbox's memoir is a cautionary tale for the Internet Age.

Biographies & Memoirs

Tarbox, Katherine

Community & Culture

Penguin Publishing Group

The seventeen-year-old author recounts how at the age of thirteen she believed she had found acceptance and love from an online companion named Mark, who was unlike her superficial peers, and recalls the devastation she experienced when she learned Mark's true identity. 22,500 first printing.

Katie.com: My Story

Dutton Adult

The author recounts how, at the age of thirteen, she believed she had found acceptance and love from an online companion named Mark, who was unlike her superficial peers, and recalls the devastation she experienced when she learned Mark's true identity.

Katie.Com: My Story

Demco Media

Katie.com

Hachette Livre Australia

In "The Art of John Fowles", Katherine Tarbox explores the teeming substance of Fowles' novels, uncovering in them a demand for the reader to master what Fowles call in "Daniel Martin", "whole sight" - the ability to comprehend and unify all the seemingly disparate elements of the self and the world. Guiding the reader through Fowles's works, Tarbox reveals that the skill of seeing whole must be learned and that Fowles teaches his reader how to see whole by using as an example the education of his protagonist. Each of the novels, from "The Collector" through to "A Maggot", takes a narcissistic protagonist through a process of intense "self-deconstruction and reconstruction" on a journey towards whole sight. The intervention of a benevolent, experienced mentor draws the protagonist into a complex masque or "godgame" that plays out, in metaphorical form, aspects of the protagonist's inauthenticity until he or she is reduced to a "litter of parts". In "The Magus" the old Greek islander Conchis dramatizes Nicholas's failings, while Sarah's bizarre charade in "The French Lieutenant's Woman" enacts Charles's struggle to be free of Victorian restraints. The fictional description of this process in the novels creates a dense tapestry of allusiveness, studied confusion, moral quandry, myth, archetype, and symbol that requires the reader to undergo the same sort of reconstruction as the protagonist before he or she can see the text whole. Within the extravagant methphor of the godgame, Fowles proposes that fiction itself is the great awakener, the great teacher. Always in his novels he compares the act of reading well with the acting of living well - both of which require, Fowles would argue, the gift of whole sight.

The Art of John Fowles

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Univ of Georgia Pr

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