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The Girl Sleuth Paperback - 1995
by Mason, Bobbie
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
A book for anyone who fondly recalls her late-night adventures inside a bedspread cave with a flashlight and a savvy heroine who has just two chapters left in which to solve the mystery. Everyone who grew up reading mystery series books will enjoy Mason's witty, sometimes nostalgic, observations on popular culture, childhood and the pleasures of reading and writing.
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Details
- Title The Girl Sleuth
- Author Mason, Bobbie
- Binding Paperback
- Edition No Edition State
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # G082031739XI3N00
- ISBN 9780820317397 / 082031739X
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.53 x 5.54 x 0.52 in (21.67 x 14.07 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, American -, Children's stories, American - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94047086
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.52
From the rear cover
In this long out-of-print work, Bobbie Ann Mason reminisces about her childhood reading of the girl detective series books. With a nostalgic but critical eye, she draws on observations of popular culture and on memories of growing up in the fifties to describe the pleasures and effects of reading mysteries. Mason's recollections of a rural youth spent longing for mysteries to solve represent a quintessential American girlhood experience. Holding up Nancy Drew as a model of "the conventional and the revolutionary in one compact package", Mason shows how the series heroines encouraged young readers to "dream big" and stay open to life's possibilities, dished up antidotes to spoon-fed notions of traditional femininity, and amiably subverted the literary snobbery of child experts, librarians, and book reviewers.