Meet Ginny Babcock - the forerunner to BRIDGET JONES It's the 1950's and 60's in Hullsport, Tennessee and Ginny Babcock is coming of age. Bouncing from one identity to the other, she adopts the values, politics, lifestyles and even sexual orientation of each new partner she finds. In this wise, funny and ultimately heartbreaking story, Lisa Alther explores the limited roles offered to women in this period - from cheerleader to motorcycle moll, bulldyke to madonna - each embodying important truths about the aspirations of ...
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Meet Ginny Babcock - the forerunner to BRIDGET JONES It's the 1950's and 60's in Hullsport, Tennessee and Ginny Babcock is coming of age. Bouncing from one identity to the other, she adopts the values, politics, lifestyles and even sexual orientation of each new partner she finds. In this wise, funny and ultimately heartbreaking story, Lisa Alther explores the limited roles offered to women in this period - from cheerleader to motorcycle moll, bulldyke to madonna - each embodying important truths about the aspirations of the culture that created them. Honest, wise, funny and tragic by turns this is a remarkable novel in a class of its own.
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Add this copy of Kinflicks to cart. $1.99, good condition, Sold by Cuyahoga Valley Book Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Peninsula, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Signet.
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Good. Edge wear, bent corners on back cover. Aging but clean pages. New Yorker, Mar.29, 1976] An ambitious, funny, lucid, and unfailingly honest novel...No other writer has yet synthesized [the coming of age in the '60's] as well as Ms. Alther has. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. John Leonard, New.
Add this copy of Kinflicks: a Novel to cart. $2.79, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Galahad Books.
Add this copy of Kinflicks to cart. $2.79, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published by Random House (NY).
Add this copy of Kinflicks: a Novel to cart. $2.80, fair condition, Sold by Gulf Coast Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Memphis, TN, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Galahad Books.
