The Revolution Of Little Girls
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The Revolution Of Little Girls by Blanche Mccrary Boyd
No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the wry, rebellious, and vision-haunted heroine of this exhilarating novel may sometimes seem to be living a magnolia-scented Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Blanche McCrary Boyd's The Revolution Of Little Girls is a completely original arid captivating work.
Boyd, Blanche McCrary: - BLANCHE McCRARY BOYD has taught at Connecticut College since 1982. She has written four novels--Terminal Velocity, The Revolution of Little Girls, Mourning the Death of Magic, and Nerves--as well as a collection of essays, The Redneck Way of Knowledge. Among the awards Boyd has won are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679738121 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679738126 |
| Title | The Revolution Of Little Girls |
| Author | Blanche Mccrary Boyd |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1992-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lambda Literary Award 1991 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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