The Revolution of Little Girls by Blanche McCrary Boyd

The Revolution of Little Girls

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.

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Details

ISBN 679738126
Genre Fiction
Copyright Date 1991
Publication Date 30-Jun-92
Publisher Vintage
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 224
Language English
Rating NotRated
BookID 10711

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