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ISBN-10: 0679738126
ISBN-13: 9780679738121
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 06/30/1992
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.16" W, 0.64" H

The Revolution of Little Girls

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Overview

No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O’Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and ’70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. The Revolution of Little Girls is both funny and heartfelt, and a completely original and captivating work.
“Funny…lively, and wry, insightful and poignant. [A] psychedelic and unsettling journey into a Southern heart of darkness”.– “Atlanta Journal-Constitution”

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"Funny...lively and wry, insightful and poignant. [A] psychedelic and unsettling journey into a Southern heart of darkness."– Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Funny and touching...Ellen's voice is immensely likable, start to finish-deadpan funny, smart, and on to herself." – Boston Globe

"Blanche Boyd is irreplaceable. There is no cast of mind with quite the same savor, no humor quite so droll, no insights which reverberate in quite the same pitch. Her style [is] sure, true, and vastly pleasurable." – Robert Stone

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679738126
ISBN-13: 9780679738121
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 06/30/1992
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.16" W, 0.64" H
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