Kinflicks

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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.

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 'An odyssey of a novel in which the heroine, American teenager Ginny Babcock struggles to find her true identity. The novel is in turn raunchy, extremely funny and a deeply serious offering. It is also unfailingly honest. It becomes a book about life and death told in a deft, refreshing and highly original voice' WESTERN MAIL 'A feminist classic (but don't be frightened fellas, it's a great read)' DEREHAM & FARENHAM TIMES 'It's the story of how Ginny became Mrs Ira Bliss IV but it's told in the most refreshing, honest, funny, invigorating way and it is very much a novel of its time' DRIFFIELD POST

Author Bio

Lisa Alther is the bestselling author of four novels. Born in Tennessee she now lives in Vermont.