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"Trouble began in 1963 . . . the age-old trouble." Unable to attend college, Beverly Ann Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around in cars, drinking, smoking, and rebelling against authority. After her teenage marriage failed, Donofrio found herself at an elite New England university, books in one arm, child on the other. Then, furnished with ambition, dreams, and five hundred dollars, she took herself and her son to New York City to begin a career and a life.
An outrageous and touching memoir, Riding in Cars with Boys is about becoming middle-class and the compromises made between being your own person and fitting into society. But mostly it's a story of a teenage mother who, as her son grows up, becomes an adult herself.
An outrageous and touching memoir, Riding in Cars with Boys is about becoming middle-class and the compromises made between being your own person and fitting into society. But mostly it's a story of a teenage mother who, as her son grows up, becomes an adult herself.
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Donofrio's memoir is funny, moving, painful and inspiring. I love her simple style of writing and her brutal honesty.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very good book. Different from the movie in many ways and very good in a different way. The writer/main character isn't what you would cal heroine but she could be an inspiration to young women that are living a life that they don't want.
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I found the book to be much better than the movie.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Better than I thought. The story of a willfully bad girl who gets into trouble (including that age-old trouble of teen pregnancy) and pulls herself (and her son) through it.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Well written and often amusing book. I couldn't put it down!
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Maggie S. (I enjoyed this book alot!Much better than the movie
Not quite as good as the movie but she's an awesome writer.
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