Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen write by Alix Kates Shulman. This book was released on 2007-03-06. Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, this novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo or trivial.
Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen
Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen write by Alix Kates Shulman. This book was released on 2012-04-03. Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now with a new preface: The “furious, fiercely funny, provocative” novel about female rebellion written decades before the #MeToo movement (Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance). Sasha Davis, smart and pretty, was once an all-American teenage beauty queen. Full of potential, she was the only student at her Midwestern high school to attend college on the East Coast. But soon her promise begins to falter. After starting graduate school in New York, Sasha gets married and drops out to take a clerical job. Consigned to the role of trophy wife, and already feeling old at twenty-four, she lives in fear of turning thirty—the year, in her mind, when her beauty will fade and life as she knows it will end. Only after a lot of sexual adventures—as well as a second marriage and motherhood—will she finally begin to figure out what’s gone wrong . . . Poignant and breathtakingly honest, Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen remains a feminist landmark—a unique blend of “fun” (Jezebel) and “devastating” (The Boston Globe). “This story, told with astringent wit, explores every facet and cliché of what it means to grow up female and beautiful.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A vivid reminder of just how much―and sometimes, how little―has changed for women . . . Typing prowess and wedding-night virginity may no longer be expected, but Shulman’s tale of Sasha Davis’s struggle to find herself amid conflicting cultural messages about beauty, brains, and sex will be resonant for many more years to come.” ―Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once “An extraordinary novel.” ―Newsweek
Drinking the Rain
Drinking the Rain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drinking the Rain write by Alix Kates Shulman. This book was released on 2004-07-05. Drinking the Rain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman left a city life dense with political activism, family, and literary community, and went to stay alone in a small cabin on an island off the Maine coast.
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen write by ALIX KATES. SHULMAN. This book was released on 2019-06-06. Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their immortal souls' The New York TimesSasha Davis has everything a girl growing up in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, intelligence and an all-star sports captain boyfriend. All she needs to succeed in life is to keep her skin clear and her intelligence hidden under her Prom Queen tiara. But when she drops out of college to marry, Sasha realises her life has become a fearful countdown to her thirtieth birthday - the year when her beauty will have faded entirely, and life as she knows it will end. As Sasha begins to rebel against her perfect, conservative upbringing, she finds herself experiencing an intellectual and sexual awakening that might be her only chance of outrunning the aging process. Alix Kates Shulman's landmark novel follows Sasha's coming of age through the sexual double standards, discrimination and harassment of the 1950s and 60s. Originally published in 1972, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen was the first great novel of second-wave feminism. Five decades later, it remains a funny, honest and heartbreakingly perceptive story of a young woman in a man's world.
Menage
Menage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Menage write by Alix Kates Shulman. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Menage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heather and Mack McKay seem to have it all: wealth, a dream house in the suburbs, and two adorable children along with the nannies to raise them. But their marriage has lost its savor: she is a frustrated writer and he longs for a cultural trophy to hang on his belt. During a chance encounter in LA, Mack invites exiled writer Zoltan Barbu—once lionized as a political hero, now becoming a has-been—to live with him and his wife in their luxurious home. The plan should provide Heather with literary companionship, Mack with cultural cachet, and Zoltan himself with a pastoral environment in which to overcome his writer’s block and produce a masterpiece. Of course, as happens with triangles, complications arise—some hilarious, some sad—as the three players pursue a game that leads to shifting alliances and sexual misadventures. Shulman pokes fun at our modern malaise (why is having it all never enough?), even as she traces the ever-changing dynamics within a marriage. Ménage is a bravura performance from one of America’s most renowned feminist writers.
