Kinflicks
$80.94
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
2 August 1999
Summary
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 embody…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860497094 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860497098 |
| Author: | Lisa Alther |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 1999 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 128mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
An ambitious, funny, lucid and unfailingly honest novel … No other writer has yet synthesised (the coming of age in the 60’s) as well as Ms Alther has - THE NEW YORKER
A strong, salty, original talent … It made me wonder what Tom Jones would be like written now - DORIS LESSINGDazzling talent … brilliant, compelling … wildly ribaldly funny - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYOrginally published in 1976 and re-released as a Virago Classic, Lisa Alther’s Kinflicks remains remarkably fresh and provides the perfect read for a plane ride into another time zone. The hilarious odyssey of Ginny Babcock, a Southern peach gone rotten, - Cherry Smyth, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEWAn ambitious, funny, lucid and unfailingly honest novel … No other writer has yet synthesised (the coming of age in the 60’s) as well as Ms Alther has - THE NEW YORKERA strong, salty, original talent … It made me wonder what Tom Jones would be like written now - DORIS LESSINGDazzling talent … brilliant, compelling … wildly ribaldly funny - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYOrginally published in 1976 and re-released as a Virago Classic, Lisa Alther’s Kinflicks remains remarkably fresh and provides the perfect read for a plane ride into another time zone. The hilarious odyssey of Ginny Babcock, a Southern peach gone rotten, - Cherry Smyth, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEWLisa Alther
Lisa Alther is the bestselling author of four novels. Born in Tennessee, she now lives in Vermont.
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