The Revolution Of Little Girls

Boyd, Blanche McCrary

ISBN 10: 0679738126 / ISBN 13: 9780679738121

Published by Vintage, 1992

About this title

Synopsis:

No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As

a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in

the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the

wry, rebellious, and vision-haunted heroine of this exhilarating novel may sometimes seem to be living a magnolia-scented Portrait of the Artist as a

Young Woman, Blanche McCrary Boyd's The Revolution Of Little Girls is a completely original arid captivating work.

From the Back Cover:

"Funny...lively and wry, insightful and poignant. [A] psychedelic and unsettling journey into a Southern heart of darkness."-- Atlanta Journal-

Constitution