- Conduct of life, Biography, Feminists, Humor
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Lindy West
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 266
- Publisher
- Quercus, Hachette Books, Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781478964872
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