How to Build a Girl
of Caitlin Moran
Series: How to Build a Girl #1
Description
A hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasnât enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroesâand build yourself.Itâs 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that thereâs no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wildeâfast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writerâlike Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntesâbut without the dying young bit.By sixteen, sheâs smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. Sheâs writing pornographic letters to rock-stars, having all the kinds of sex with all kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.But what happens when Johanna realizes sheâs built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks, enough to build a girl after all?Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease. How to Build a Girl is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.
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- Format E-book
- Pages 368 pages
- Publisher Harper
- Publication Date September 23rd 2014
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9999999999999
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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