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How to Build a Girl: A Novel (P.S. (Paperback)) Paperback - 2015
by Moran, Caitlin
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Details
- Title How to Build a Girl: A Novel (P.S. (Paperback))
- Author Moran, Caitlin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2015-06-30
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00C2V7_ns
- ISBN 9780062335982 / 0062335987
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Dixon
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects England, Teenage girls
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes--and build yourself. It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde--fast-talking, hard-drinking gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer. By sixteen, she's smoking cigarettes, getting drunk, and working for a music paper. She's writing pornographic letters to rock stars, having all the kinds of sex with all the kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less. But what happens when Johanna realizes she's built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks enough to build a girl after all?
Media reviews
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 07/10/2015, Page 108
- New York Times Book Review, 08/30/2015, Page 28