Freaky Green Eyes

By Joyce Carol Oates

Book Overview

"Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you." Sometimes Franky Pierson has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064473481
• ISBN13: 9780064473484
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Storytide
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.7" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

A scary, sad, and impossible to put down book

From the moment i started this book, it put a death grip on my mind and didn't let go until i finished it! This book raised some real issues and haunted me soooo ong after i finished the last page. I admit,i cryed hard. This book was thick wth emotion: sadness, tension, fear, hope, love, and hate. I reccomend this book to anyone over 13 but i am warning any reader or potential reader- YOU WILL THINK ABOUT THIS BOOK LONG AFTER YOU FINISH IT...IT IS VERY SAD!!

Freaky Green Eyes

The introduction to Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates is very catchy. It leads you into the book without you wanting to put in down, and the ending makes you never want it to end. This book would mostly attract girls that like books full of real-life events. For example, in this book it talks about school, death, and divorce. These things could really happen, which is what I loved about the book. Freaky Green Eyes is about a girl named Franky with a famous, but violent father. When her mother starts leaving the house, she knows something is wrong. After, awhile her mother turns up missing, and finds her journal. Through reading this diary, she soon learns there is more to the story than just her mother leaving. My favorite part of the book is how there are so many details. Joyce Carol Oates does a very good job with keeping the story a mystery until the very end. The problem with the descriptivness is that she doesn't really leave anything to the imagination. If you are looking for a great, mysterious book that keeps you reading, this is the book for you. It takes you on a wonderful adventure that you will never forget. When I started reading this book I got into it, and didn't even notice how many pages I was reading. Unlike many books I have read, this one kept me intrested thoughout the whole book.

can't stop thinking about it

this is the best book i've read in a lonnng time. Just like the cover says, it does haunt you long after the last page. francesca's alter ego, freaky green eyes, knows the truth, the truth that francesca does not want to know. The whole book you can tell that francesca's dad is a little scary, through his intolerance, abuse, and something else that is reflected in Oates writing. this is a mix of a coming to age story, and a mystery. it is the only mystery book i've read where the main character actually goes into artistic detail about her feelings. Buy this book and you won't be dissapointed.

Absolutely Wonderful!

Joyce Carol Oates has far surpassed her first young adult novel, Big Mouth and Ugly Girl, with Freaky Green Eyes. I loved this novel and couldn't put it down. As a high school English teacher, I've recommended it to several students and word of mouth has spread--everyone can't wait to read Freaky Green Eyes.

Oates at her best

I just finished Freaky Green Eyes, and I must admit that I almost enjoy the young adult titles by Oates better that I like her adult fiction. This book was simply amazing. Oates tells the story of a dysfunctional marriage through the eyes of the oldest teenage daughter in the house with so much accuracy that I felt like I was fifteen again. The story reminded me of something that I would see on the news, (reminiscent of the OJ Simpson trial), however, with Oates's close attention to detail and intricate character development she puts a truly unique spin on a common theme. The plot of the story sneaks up on you and before you realize it this coming of age memoir turns into the kind of suspense novel that demands to be read in one sitting.