| Girl Talk Contributor(s): Baggott, Julianna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743400836 ISBN-13: 9780743400831 Publisher: Atria Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: In her debut novel, acclaimed short-story writer and poet Baggott has woven a precise, smartly comic, and compassionate tale of discovery and desire. With a lyrical sensibility, Baggott reminds readers--through the witty and unsparingly realistic voice of her narrator, Lissy--of the pleasures and sorrows that can come from the most unreasonable realities of the heart. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" (0.59 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer her father, a soft-spoken gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. The same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire lives to have an adventure of their own amid a cast of unlikely characters, including a Valium-addicted ex-debutante and a suspected mobster. The summer the reliably comforting girl talks with her mother began to reveal startling secrets. Now an almost-thirty-year-old advertising executive in Manhattan, faced with her father's imminent death and newly pregnant by her married ex-lover, an unmoored Lissy finds herself looking back across the years. Contending with her affections for an old flame and his doomed marriage to a Korean stripper named Kitty Hawk, as well as the tangible legacies of that unmentionable summer with her mother, she realizes that she has become more like her mother than she ever could have imagined. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baggott, Julianna: - Julianna Baggott's work has appeared in such publications as The Southern Review, Ms. magazine, Poetry, Best American Poetry 2000, and read on NPR's Talk of the Nation. The nationally bestselling author of The Miss America Family and Girl Talk, as well a book of poems entitled This Country of Mothers, she teaches at Florida State University and lives in Tallahassee with her husband and three children. Visit her website at www.juliannabaggott.com. |