{"product_id":"bogeywoman-jaimy-gordon-9780307946898","title":"Bogeywoman","description":"A \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book or the Year \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNational Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon's bold and daring coming of age novel combines the teenaged angst of \u003ci\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e with the humor and tragedy of \u003ci\u003eGirl, Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUrsie Koderer knows herself to be a monster--doomed to be different from other girls--very different. When she's discovered cutting herself at camp, she goes AWOL, and lands in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital. Ursie, now known as the Bogeywoman, joins up with the other misfits on the adolescent ward. They start a bughouse rock group, steal a nitrous oxide machine. As a mental patient Ursie is a success. But then she's implicated in the accidental burning of a friend. Locked away, the Bogeywoman meets the beautiful, mysterious Doctor Zuk, a woman psychiatrist from somewhere east of the Urals. Their affair is the main event in this gorgeous novel of love, crime, liberation, and flight to something like a new world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jaimy Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307946894\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307946898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.29w x 0.66d","brand":"Jaimy Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072187822335,"sku":"9780307946898","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_76df484b-96e0-4606-944d-e4e2c8981ec8.jpg?v=1685440460","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bogeywoman-jaimy-gordon-9780307946898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}