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.
| ISBN: | 9780099283980 |
| Publication date: | 3rd August 2000 |
| Author: | Alice Hoffman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 197 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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.
Local Girls features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Local Girls was written by Alice Hoffman and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Random House
Local Girls has 197 pages