Blueprints for Building Better Girls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743276719)

Elissa Schappell, "a diva of the encapsulating phrase, capable of conveying a Pandora's box of feeling in a single line" (The New York Times Book Review) delivers eight provocative, darkly funny linked stories that map America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day.Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters--from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother--mapping America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present day. Its interconnected stories explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers. In revealing all their vulnerabilities and twisting our preconceived notions of who they are, Elissa Schappell alters how we think about the nature of female identity and how it evolves.

Author: Elissa Schappell
ISBN-10: 074327671X
ISBN-13: 9780743276719
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2012
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.55w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/12/2012 pg. 26