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First edition. |
Description |
1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Note |
"Three college friends from the 50's blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These 'wild girls' pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite northeastern college, to Paris with Allen Ginsberg, to New York's avant-garde scene in the early sixties, to a mansion in Newport, to the slopes of Zermatt, to Long Island's Gold Coast, as it celebrates the nimbleness and vitality of women who defied an entire culture to forge their own journey."--Provided by publisher. |
Summary |
"Three college friends from the 50's blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These 'wild girls' pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite northeastern college, to Paris with Allen Ginsberg, to New York's avant-garde scene in the early sixties, to a mansion in Newport, to the slopes of Zermatt, to Long Island's Gold Coast, as it celebrates the nimbleness and vitality of women who defied an entire culture to forge their own journey."--Provided by publisher. |
Contents |
Front Cover; Wild Girls -- title page; Copyright; Prologue; Part I School for Girls; Sentimental Education 101; Sentimental Education 102; Coda; Part II Ex-pats; Dispatch from the Front; Guess What?; Here Lies the Heart; Design for Living; Boy Gang; Socks; Silky; Arden Press; Jungle Gardenia; Career Move; Begin in Gladness; Weddings; Part III; Wife; I'll Make You a Star; Ancient Starlight; Joberoo; Workup; Road Sign; The Chord; Part IV Invincible Summer; Paris 1998, seventeen years later; Back Cover. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Women. |
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Subject |
Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Female friendship. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970 -- Fiction.
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Chronological Term |
1945-1970 |
Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- -- Fiction.
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Chronological Term |
1971- |
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Since 1945 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Women's friendships. |
Genre/Form |
Novels.
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Novels.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Abeel, Erica. Wild girls. First edition. Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2016] 9781680031034 (DLC) 2016015976 (OCoLC)946277242 |
ISBN |
9781680031041 (electronic book) |
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168003104X (electronic book) |
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9781680031034 |
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1680031031 |
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