Local Girls

Alice Hoffman

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Publisher:: Vintage, 04/2011
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780099565277
Item number:: 12234589
Volume:: 208 Pages
Weight:: 254 g
Format:: 198 x 129 mm
Thickness:: 12 mm
Release date:: 19.4.2011
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

Blurb

Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood picking her way though the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and disaster bad judgement and fierce attachments. Her father has left them her chain-smoking mother Franny is falling apart and refuses to learn the simple lessons of life her perfect brother has fatal flaws and even her best friend Jill - blonde enviable and beautiful - is moving too fast into the unfathomable world of women.

Biography

Alice Hoffman, geboren 1952 in New York, aufgewachsen auf Long Island. Studium in Stanford. Sie wurde von "Entertainment Weekly" in die Liste der "100 kreativsten Persönlichkeiten der Unterhaltungsbranche" aufgenommen; ihre Romane standen auf den amerikanischen Bestsellerlisten. Heute lebt die Autorin der Nähe von Boston.