- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Young women, Tennessee, fiction
In Kinflicks, Lisa Alther reels through the ups and downs of Ginny Babcock's coming of age in Hullsport, Tennessee, during the '50s and '60s. Ginny bounces from one identity to another, adopting the values, politics, lifestyle, even the sexual orientation of each new partner.
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Classical in form, character-led, spare and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lisa Alther
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 503
- Publisher
- Signet, Knopf : distributed by Random House, DH Audio
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780452276772
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