Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good - Softcover

Donofrio, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140156291 ISBN 13: 9780140156294

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

Denied college, Beverly Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and rebelling against authority. She got married and divorced and finally ended up in an elite New England university, books in one arm, child in the other. A book about the compromise between being your own person and fitting into society.

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Review:

A classic. Unless you hate to laugh, read it now (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)

What Beverly Donofrio makes you realise is that even very, very B-A-D girls can redeem themselves with pluck, luck, and gallows humour. Every swoop and dive of this roller coaster life presents another off-kilter view of humanity. You're just so glad it (Jacki Lyden, author of DAUGHTER OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA)

She writes as though she was born without brakes- it's shrewd, touching, funny and astonishing. (Joanna Lumley)

She describes her relucant disastrous marriage at 17 and subsequent battle to educate herself, while brining up her son alone on welfare, with a humour and tenacity that is touching and shockingly funny... This sends her spare, witty prose dancing across t (OBSERVER)

Book Description:

* 'Beverly Donofrio lives and writes as though she was born without brakes -- it's shrewd, touching, funny and astonishing' Joanna Lumley

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140156291
• ISBN 13: 9780140156294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208