A hilarious yet deeply moving coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran, âthe U.K.âs answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into oneâ (Marie Claire)
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 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 Jarâwritten 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.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Author : Moran, Caitlin
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2015-06-30
Number Of Pages : 368
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1443433624
ISBN-13 : 9781443433624
Item weight : 0.79 lb
Dimensions : 1.02 in x 5.28 in x 7.87 in
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