Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
of Elissa Schappell (Goodreads Author)
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Elissa Schappell, âa diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandoraâs box of feeling in a single lineâ (The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map Americaâs shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female charactersâfrom the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant motherâmapping Americaâs shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day. Its interconnected stories explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers. In revealing all their vulnerabilities and twisting our preconceived notions of who they are, Elissa Schappell alters how we think about the nature of female identity and how it evolves.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 320 pages
- Publisher Simon Schuster
- Publication Date July 10th 2012
- First Publication 09/06/11
- Language English
- ISBN 9780743276719
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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