A critically accalimed first novel with people
and situations unique to the dawn of the "sexual revolution".
It part moving and sensitive, but largely comedic.
The New Yorker said "Ginny's sexual adventures and
misadventures are among the funniest ever recorded...
no other writer has yet synthesized the coming of age
in the sixties as well as Alther".
Harpers mag said "We are in the presence of a most
powerful and remarkable talent...a book so
continuously funny that its wisdom takes you
by surprise.
and situations unique to the dawn of the "sexual revolution".
It part moving and sensitive, but largely comedic.
The New Yorker said "Ginny's sexual adventures and
misadventures are among the funniest ever recorded...
no other writer has yet synthesized the coming of age
in the sixties as well as Alther".
Harpers mag said "We are in the presence of a most
powerful and remarkable talent...a book so
continuously funny that its wisdom takes you
by surprise.
Per the "Saturday Review": "A wildly erotic, exuberantly funny masterpiece of storytelling. An Extraordinary Novel."
Per The New Yorker: "Ginny's sexual adventures and misadventures are among the funniest ever recorded."
Per The New Yorker: "Ginny's sexual adventures and misadventures are among the funniest ever recorded."
The social history of America in the third-Quarter fo the 20th century has been prepared in a mocking, funny, encyclopedic first novel. Everything is here - southern teen-age, New England intellectual, Vermont farmer, hippy counter-culture, radical feminist.