Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A. (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781556525865)

After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy metal flack. This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction.

Author: Anne Thomas Soffee
ISBN-10: 1556525869
ISBN-13: 9781556525865
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.90w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 42
Booklist 09/15/2005 pg. 23
School Library Journal 01/01/2006 pg. 174
Library Journal 09/15/2005