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Caitlin Moran How to Build a Girl (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- How to Build a Girl : a Novel
- Publication Name
- How to Build a Girl
- Title
- How to Build a Girl
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0062335987
- EAN
- 9780062335982
- ISBN
- 9780062335982
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 30/06/2015
- Release Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Topic
- Literary, Coming of Age, Humorous / General
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with 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 wasn't enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes-and build yourself. It's 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there's no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde-fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer-like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntes-but without the dying young bit. By sixteen, she's smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She's 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 she's 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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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062335987
ISBN-13
9780062335982
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208697929
Product Key Features
Book Title
How to Build a Girl : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Coming of Age, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
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"Rowdy and fearless ... sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways.... Ms. Moran is often compared to Tina Fey and Lena Dunham, which is fair so far as it goes, though I'd add Amy Winehouse and the early Roseanne Barr to the mix." -- Dwight Garner, New York Times "Vivid and full of truths.... There's a point in midlife, when you're already built, as it were, when the average coming-of-age story starts to feel completely uninteresting. But Moran is so lively, dazzlingly insightful and fun that "How to Build a Girl" transcends any age restrictions." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Wonderfully wise and flat-out hilarious." -- People , Book of the Week "Very funny.... Moran never loses touch with what seemed to me an authentic and believable teenage voice.... The joy of this easy-read novel is not just the scrappy protagonist.... Moran makes strong statements about social inequality and gender throughout." -- Ellah Allfrey, NPR's Fresh Air "I have so much love for Caitlin Moran." -- Lena Dunham "The earnestness with which Johanna goes about constructing a new persona gives the novel an almost irresistible verve, and the reader continues to root for her even during the most embarrassing episodes." -- The New Yorker "A smart, splendid, laugh-out-loud-funny novel." -- Boston Globe "A feminist coming-of-age tale.... Johanna is an irrepressible narrator, telling a mostly-true and funny tale of survival and success." -- Joanna Scutts, Washington Post Book World "Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny." -- Helen Fielding, author of Mad About the Boy and Bridget Jones's Diary "Binge-read all of How To Build a Girl in one sitting. Even missed supper. A first. Rose petals where 'ere you walk, Caitlin." -- Nigella Lawson "Rallying cries will always have a place in a yet-unfinished movement like feminism, but sometimes storytelling is more effective. The fictional Johanna Morrigan never drops the F-word, but readers can see she's asking all the right questions." -- New York Times Book Review "If anyone knows how to build a girl, it's Moran-she's put adolescence on the page in a book that's humming with authenticity." -- NPR Best Book of the Year selection "Very funny." -- Megan Gibson, Time "I crammed every word down like Cinnabon!" -- Joss Whedon "A funny book, heartfelt, silly, profane, insightful.... This is human stuff, a smile or laugh in almost every sentence---ften a snort, giggle, or guffaw--and you learn a lot about how girls get built." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Brash, biting, comic.... Less a novelistic rendering of Moran's particularly gritty and appealing brand of feminism than an incisive and yet entertaining assessment of class dynamics in post-Thatcher Britain." -- New Republic "A funny, filthy and ultimately touching coming-of-age story.... Raunchy, wry and thoughtful-much like its vivacious heroine." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune, The earnestness with which Johanna goes about constructing a new persona gives the novel an almost irresistible verve, and the reader continues to root for her even during the most embarrassing episodes., A funny, filthy and ultimately touching coming-of-age story…. Raunchy, wry and thoughtful-much like its vivacious heroine., A funny book, heartfelt, silly, profane, insightful…. This is human stuff, a smile or laugh in almost every sentence---ften a snort, giggle, or guffaw--and you learn a lot about how girls get built., A funny book, heartfelt, silly, profane, insightful…. This is human stuff, a smile or laugh in almost every sentence-—ften a snort, giggle, or guffaw—and you learn a lot about how girls get built., A feminist coming-of-age tale…. Johanna is an irrepressible narrator, telling a mostly-true and funny tale of survival and success., Binge-read all of How To Build a Girl in one sitting. Even missed supper. A first. Rose petals where 'ere you walk, Caitlin., Rowdy and fearless ... sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways…. Ms. Moran is often compared to Tina Fey and Lena Dunham, which is fair so far as it goes, though I'd add Amy Winehouse and the early Roseanne Barr to the mix., Very funny.... Moran never loses touch with what seemed to me an authentic and believable teenage voice…. The joy of this easy-read novel is not just the scrappy protagonist…. Moran makes strong statements about social inequality and gender throughout., Brash, biting, comic…. Less a novelistic rendering of Moran's particularly gritty and appealing brand of feminism than an incisive and yet entertaining assessment of class dynamics in post-Thatcher Britain., If anyone knows how to build a girl, it's Moran-she's put adolescence on the page in a book that's humming with authenticity., Rallying cries will always have a place in a yet-unfinished movement like feminism, but sometimes storytelling is more effective. The fictional Johanna Morrigan never drops the F-word, but readers can see she's asking all the right questions., "Vivid and full of truths…. There's a point in midlife, when you're already built, as it were, when the average coming-of-age story starts to feel completely uninteresting. But Moran is so lively, dazzlingly insightful and fun that "How to Build a Girl" transcends any age restrictions.", A funny book, heartfelt, silly, profane, insightful…. This is human stuff, a smile or laugh in almost every sentence--ften a snort, giggle, or guffaw-and you learn a lot about how girls get built., "Rowdy and fearless ... sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways.... Ms. Moran is often compared to Tina Fey and Lena Dunham, which is fair so far as it goes, though I'd add Amy Winehouse and the early Roseanne Barr to the mix." -- Dwight Garner, New York Times "Vivid and full of truths.... There's a point in midlife, when you're already built, as it were, when the average coming-of-age story starts to feel completely uninteresting. But Moran is so lively, dazzlingly insightful and fun that "How to Build a Girl" transcends any age restrictions." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Wonderfully wise and flat-out hilarious." -- People , Book of the Week "Very funny.... Moran never loses touch with what seemed to me an authentic and believable teenage voice.... The joy of this easy-read novel is not just the scrappy protagonist.... Moran makes strong statements about social inequality and gender throughout." -- Ellah Allfrey, NPR's Fresh Air "I have so much love for Caitlin Moran." -- Lena Dunham "The earnestness with which Johanna goes about constructing a new persona gives the novel an almost irresistible verve, and the reader continues to root for her even during the most embarrassing episodes." -- The New Yorker "A smart, splendid, laugh-out-loud-funny novel." -- Boston Globe "A feminist coming-of-age tale.... Johanna is an irrepressible narrator, telling a mostly-true and funny tale of survival and success." -- Joanna Scutts, Washington Post Book World "Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny." -- Helen Fielding, author of Mad About the Boy and Bridget Jones's Diary "Binge-read all of How To Build a Girl in one sitting. Even missed supper. A first. Rose petals where 'ere you walk, Caitlin." -- Nigella Lawson "Rallying cries will always have a place in a yet-unfinished movement like feminism, but sometimes storytelling is more effective. The fictional Johanna Morrigan never drops the F-word, but readers can see she's asking all the right questions." -- New York Times Book Review "If anyone knows how to build a girl, it's Moran-she's put adolescence on the page in a book that's humming with authenticity." -- NPR Best Book of the Year selection "Very funny." -- Megan Gibson, Time "I crammed every word down like Cinnabon!" -- Joss Whedon "A funny book, heartfelt, silly, profane, insightful.... This is human stuff, a smile or laugh in almost every sentence---ften a snort, giggle, or guffaw--and you learn a lot about how girls get built." -- Philadelphia Inquirer "Brash, biting, comic.... Less a novelistic rendering of Moran's particularly gritty and appealing brand of feminism than an incisive and yet entertaining assessment of class dynamics in post-Thatcher Britain." -- Chloe Schama, New Republic "A funny, filthy and ultimately touching coming-of-age story.... Raunchy, wry and thoughtful-much like its vivacious heroine." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune
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