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The Revolution of Little Girls

The Revolution of Little Girls

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Written by Blanche Mccrary BoydAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Blanche Mccrary Boyd

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
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  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: June 30, 1992
  • Price: $15.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-73812-1 (0-679-73812-6)
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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 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. The Revolution of Little Girls is both funny and heartfelt, and a completely original and captivating work.

"Funny...lively, and wry, insightful and poignant. [A] psychedelic and unsettling journey into a Southern heart of darkness."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution