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.
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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.
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'Alice Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives' The New York Times Book Review

Product details

ISBN
9780099565277
Published
2011-04-19
Publisher
Vintage Publishing; Vintage
Weight
150 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
01, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208

Author

Biographical note

Alice Hoffman is the author of thirteen novels, including At Risk, White Horses, Turtle Moon, Second Nature, Practical Magic, Here on Earth, The River King and, most recently, Blue Diary, many of which have been best-sellers in the USA and Germany, and she has also written screenplays. Alice Hoffman is married with two sons, and lives in Massachusetts.