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"The acerbic journalist/literary critic, author of _Southern Ladies and Gentleman_, _Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?_ and _When Sisterhood Was in Flower_, tells the story of her first 25 years. A tenth-generation Virginian who grew up in and around the District of Columbia, she details the Southern obsession with femininity and lady-hood (though her father was an English-born bartender-musician and reader of books, and her mother a salty baseball lover). She also recalls hating children (nearly all others as well as any prospect of bearing her own), stalking sex with men and falling in love with women, and the oddities of pre-civil rights sex and race relations at the University of Mississippi where she attended grad school. An utterly hilarious and refreshing memoir."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Romance
Yes
Kind of romance:
- In love with someone already taken
- In love with someone of different social class
- in love with mixedup person
- searching for lover
- seduction (yum!)
job/profession:
- writer
Gender/Class story?
- woman's story
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
If this is a culture clash:
- minority culture living in majority area
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Century:
- 1930's-1950's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel?
- very happy
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- eccentric personalities
- Dry-cynical
- sarcastic/sardonic
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- licking
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- lesbians!
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
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