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The Memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, Or, Growing Up in New Jersey
The Memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom Or Growing Up in New Jersey Author:Linda Sunshine A grand, humorous, and shocking fictional biography of Bambi Goldbloom, who was born and lived in New Jersey and rose to fame -- but not without an assortment of trials, tribulations, and some outrageous characters. — Linda Sunshine brings out the loser, worrier, pre-pubescent, pretentious git in all of us in a trulely loveable characte... more »r who among other things was in love with Prince Charles, had a friend with a Mary Tyler Moore identity crisis, sent her father broke, and married solely to get her mother off her back. The character exerts the self-confidence of a lavishly-adorned princess, with the naivety of a sweepstake ticket-buyer who expects to win.
The Memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom is a hilarious look at growing up a Jewish girl in New Jersey in the seventies - and from an Catholic growing up in Australia at the same time, it is a refreshing, and sometimes embarrassingly-familiar coming of age novel.« less