The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir - Hardcover

Dobie, Kathy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385318804 ISBN 13: 9780385318808

Publisher: Dial Pr, 2003

Synopsis

In a tender, 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, the consequences of her rebellion in terms of her life in a small town, and her struggle to find her place in the world.

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Review:

"This is the most honest, unflinching account of the sexuality of an adolescent girl I've ever read.  Kathy Dobie treads fearlessly in that undiscovered country."
--Haven Kimmel author of A Girl Named Zippy
“Kathy Dobie writes a prose so fine that she leaves the reader breathless with pleasure.”
--Richard Rodriguez
“The Only Girl in the Car is a memoir at its best--haunting honesty combined with literary grace. An impossible task, but this book accomplishes it, in a form so elegant as to seem effortless.... What a storyteller, and what a soul to tell it!”
--Jennifer Lauck, author of "Blackbird
""The Only Girl in the Car is at once as comfortable as a dear friend and as terrifying as a dear friend's darkest secret. Open and honest and dignified, this is the memoir, often funny, always intelligent, of an era, of a family, but, most of all, of a remarkable and resilient girl's intimacy with her own mistakes."
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"This is the most honest, unflinching account of the sexuality of an adolescent girl I've ever read. Kathy Dobie treads fearlessly in that undiscovered country."
--Haven Kimmel author of A Girl Named Zippy

"Kathy Dobie writes a prose so fine that she leaves the reader breathless with pleasure."
--Richard Rodriguez

"The Only Girl in the Car is a memoir at its best--haunting honesty combined with literary grace. An impossible task, but this book accomplishes it, in a form so elegant as to seem effortless.... What a storyteller, and what a soul to tell it!"
--Jennifer Lauck, author of Blackbird

"The Only Girl in the Car is at once as comfortable as a dear friend and as terrifying as a dear friend's darkest secret. Open and honest and dignified, this is the memoir, often funny, always intelligent, of an era, of a family, but, most of all, of a remarkable and resilient girl's intimacy with her own mistakes."
--Cathleen Schine, author of Alice in Bed, The Love Letter, and The Evolution of Jane

From the Hardcover edition.

Book Description:

'Riveting reading. As coming-of-age memoirs go, this is one of the best' - Marie Claire

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385318804
• ISBN 13: 9780385318808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228