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Kinflicks (Virago Modern Classics)

Kinflicks (Virago Modern Classics)

by Lisa Alther (Author)

  • New

    Paperback 1999

    $23.67

  • Used

    Paperback 1977

    $5.44
Synopsis

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.

$23.67

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10 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 574
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 06 May 1999
ISBN 10: 1860497098
ISBN 13: 9781860497094
Book Overview: *Included in the Virago Modern Classics 21st Anniversary promotion: * UK author PR to spearhead publicity for VMC 21st promotion *High -impact advertising in the SUNDAY TIMES and the GUARDIAN *Extensive target mailing to reader groups *High-profile consumer competitions in the national press *Sumptuous range of POS for instore displays includes mixed display bins, banner posters and bookmarks *Review coverage in the national press and women's magazines

Media Reviews
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 LESSING *
Dazzling talent ... brilliant, compelling ... wildly ribaldly funny * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
Orginally 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 REVIEW *
Author Bio
Lisa Alther is the bestselling author of four novels. Born in Tennessee, she now lives in Vermont. Her website address is: http//www.rhombus.net/artvt/p_altherbkgd.htm