How to Build a Girl A Novel

Caitlin Moran

eBook - 2014

Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!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 Advent...urer. 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...

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Published
HarperCollins
Language
English
Main Author
Caitlin Moran
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Kindle Book
ASINB00HU5NF32
Release Date9/23/2014
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780062335999
Release Date9/23/2014