Sara Levine teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, Sonora Review, and other magazines. She won a 2008 Bridport Prize for Fiction, a Special Mention in The Pushcart Anthology, and three citations in The Best American Essays. Her writing has been anthologized in Best of Fence: The First Nine Years and The Touchstone Anthology of Creative Nonfiction: 1970 to the Present.

"Unstoppably funny."--Susannah Sonnenberg, The San Francisco Chronicle

"Treasure Island!!! is outrageous, surprising, frightening, and funny--a hip grandchild of Poe, Nabokov and Peanuts' Lucy Van Pelt."--Mark O'Donnell, writer and humorist

"A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent."--Rebecca Barry, The New York Times

"Levine sports an original, brutally witty voice."--Kristi Lanier, The Washington Post

"Levine's voice is a wild ride."--Aimee Bender, author

"Had Grace Paley spent her youth hanging out with Larry David, listening to the Ramones, and reading Stanley Elkin, she'd have probably written something like Treasure Island!!!"--Adam Levin

"Insane, hilarious, and irreverent."--Alice Sebold, author

"Why don't you throw yourself headlong into the TORNADO OF CHAOS that is the protagonist of Sara Levine's Treasure Island!!!--especially if you enjoyed the television program Fleabag?"--Molly Young, Vulture

"Highly original...will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator."--Library Journal

Publisher: Europa Editions

Pub date: 2011-12-07

Length: 172 pages