Marilyn by Steinem Gloria

Marilyn by Steinem Gloria

A childhood of abuse and a straight razor solution have landed Marilyn in a dead-end job as a waitress at a short order diner on El Paso's south side within sight of the border with Juarez.

Scarred from the long ago abuse she is content to wait tables and walk home at the end of her shift to her one room rental. She sees no change in her circumstances until the diner's dishwasher Poncy hits her up with a proposal at the request of Xavier, his drug lord cousin from Juarez: Ride along as a drug mule decoy on a heroin delivery from Texas to Kentucky.

The money is big, the work is easy and a GPS will point the way. All she has to do is ride. Marilyn and Poncy soon find themselves betrayed and pursued by a past his prime Texas ranger, Columbian assassins, Texas rednecks and a Juarez hitman. It all seems hopeless until Marilyn and her razor take control.

Marilyn is a novel of survival and one woman's refusal to permit a parade of men to define the outcome of her life.

Steinem, Gloria: - Gloria Steinem is a world-renowned feminist activist, founder of Ms. Magazine, writer and lecturer. Steinem has been committed to the empowerment of not only women, but also anyone who feels disenfranchised and disempowered. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms. Magazine and was instrumental in the magazine's recent move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, she had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. Her books include the bestsellers Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and Marilyn: Norma Jean, on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Her writing also appears in many anthologies and textbooks, and she was an editor of Houghton Mifflin's The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. As a writer, Ms. Steinem has received the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards, National Magazine awards, an Emmy Citation for excellence in television writing, the Women's Sports Journalism Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, and most recently, the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism. She now lives in New York City and is currently at work on Road to the Heart: America As if Everyone Mattered, a book about her more than thirty years on the road as a feminist organizer. She is also writing for other books and publications and recently co-founded the Women's Media Center.

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ISBN 13	9780805000603
ISBN 10	0805000607
Title	Marilyn
Author	Steinem Gloria
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Henry Holt And Co
Year published	1988-08-01
Number of pages	182
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