Author: Kathy Dobie
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0307765822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Only Girl in the Car Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer’s spirit, and a child’s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy’s Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her “cheesecake,” and suddenly saw her path. “Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten”--the very words seemed to be “doors opening” to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a “full-grown man,” fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car with four boys on the outskirts of her small suburban town, she finds it. Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the “boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future,” she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did. And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. The story of how she came to be in that car, and how she stepped out of it forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, is the theme of this extraordinary coming-of-age tale.
The Only Girl in the Car
Author: Kathy Dobie
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0307765822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Only Girl in the Car Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer’s spirit, and a child’s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy’s Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her “cheesecake,” and suddenly saw her path. “Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten”--the very words seemed to be “doors opening” to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a “full-grown man,” fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car with four boys on the outskirts of her small suburban town, she finds it. Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the “boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future,” she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did. And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. The story of how she came to be in that car, and how she stepped out of it forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, is the theme of this extraordinary coming-of-age tale.
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0307765822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Only Girl in the Car Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer’s spirit, and a child’s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy’s Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her “cheesecake,” and suddenly saw her path. “Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten”--the very words seemed to be “doors opening” to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a “full-grown man,” fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car with four boys on the outskirts of her small suburban town, she finds it. Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the “boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future,” she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did. And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. The story of how she came to be in that car, and how she stepped out of it forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, is the theme of this extraordinary coming-of-age tale.
The Only Girl in the Car
Author: Kathy Dobie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In a coming-of-age memoir, the author describes how her yearning to escape her role as the "Big Sister" and "Mother's Helper" in her family led her into trouble, and the consequences of her rebellion in terms of her life in a small town.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In a coming-of-age memoir, the author describes how her yearning to escape her role as the "Big Sister" and "Mother's Helper" in her family led her into trouble, and the consequences of her rebellion in terms of her life in a small town.
Only Girl in the Car
Author: Kathy Dobie
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099761617
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"This is a story of a young girl - the oldest daughter in a Catholic family of six children, with a rebelious older brother, an exhausted mother whose attention Kathy craves, and a glamorous father whom she idolises - struggling to find her proper place in the world. In the spring of her 14th year suddenly 'the earth blossomed with men and boys... they were everywhere', and Kathy sees her path towards power and freedom. Bur girls who break the rules in small towns like hers are expected to pay a high price for their transgressions, and Kathy soon learns the rpice. How she stepped out of that car forever altered, but not forever damaged, and how she learned to fight back after being labelled as a slut, insulted and ostrcised in her own neighbourhood, is also part of her story. Always aware that her ambitions were bigger and more complicated that the suburbs she grew up in, Kathy was determined to come through and to transform her life."
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099761617
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"This is a story of a young girl - the oldest daughter in a Catholic family of six children, with a rebelious older brother, an exhausted mother whose attention Kathy craves, and a glamorous father whom she idolises - struggling to find her proper place in the world. In the spring of her 14th year suddenly 'the earth blossomed with men and boys... they were everywhere', and Kathy sees her path towards power and freedom. Bur girls who break the rules in small towns like hers are expected to pay a high price for their transgressions, and Kathy soon learns the rpice. How she stepped out of that car forever altered, but not forever damaged, and how she learned to fight back after being labelled as a slut, insulted and ostrcised in her own neighbourhood, is also part of her story. Always aware that her ambitions were bigger and more complicated that the suburbs she grew up in, Kathy was determined to come through and to transform her life."
Only Girl in the Car Proof
Author: Kathy Dobie
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 9780701176280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 9780701176280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
So You Wanna Be A Car Girl?
Author: Grace Manning
Publisher: Grace Manning
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Young Woman's Guide To Cars
Publisher: Grace Manning
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Young Woman's Guide To Cars
Collier's
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Garage Girl's Guide to Everything You Need to Know about Your Car
Author: Courtney Hansen
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581825190
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A guide to automobile ownership and maintenance discusses what kind of car to buy, safety, inspection, fuel efficiency, avoiding theft, emergency supplies, basic tools, important car parts, and how to deal with mechanics.
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581825190
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A guide to automobile ownership and maintenance discusses what kind of car to buy, safety, inspection, fuel efficiency, avoiding theft, emergency supplies, basic tools, important car parts, and how to deal with mechanics.
Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide
Author: Patrice Banks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501144111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Maintain your ride, think like a mechanic, get down and dirty under the hood"--from cover.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501144111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Maintain your ride, think like a mechanic, get down and dirty under the hood"--from cover.
Baltimore and Ohio Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Motor Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
Book Description