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Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
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Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Sara Shandler

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In response to the bestselling "Reviving Ophelia," this extraordinary book captures in poignant and provocative prose the candid voices of "Ophelias" coast to coast on issues both public and private.

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  • Title Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
  • Author Sara Shandler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999-05-05
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # WAL-R-1f-00480
  • ISBN 9780060952976 / 0060952970
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
  • Reading level 790
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Self-Esteem
  • Library of Congress subjects Youths' writings, American, Teenage girls - United States - Psychology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99013534
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.235

First line

I was a media-fed child.

From the rear cover

At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly explored the unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood. Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other Ophelias to do so as well.

A poignant collection of original pieces selected from more than eighthundred contributions, Ophelia Speaks culls writings from the hearts of girls nationwide, of various races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Ranging in age from twelve to eighteen, the voices here offer a provocative and piercingly real view on issues public and private, from body image to boys, politics to parents, school to sex. Framing each chapter are Shandler's own personal reflections, offering both the comfort of a trusted friend and an honest perspective from within the whirlwind of adolescence.

In these pages, you will see your best friend, your daughter, your sister--and yourself. At once filled with heartbreak and hope, in these pages Ophelia speaks.

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Citations

  • Beyond the Cover Author Interv, 01/01/2000, Page 17
  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 53
  • Library Journal, 07/01/1999, Page 116
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/10/1999, Page 46

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