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

Donofrio, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140296298 ISBN 13: 9780140296297

Publisher: Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

A memoir of one young woman's journey from hoodlum to mother to successful writer tells about moving from the working to the middle class, about adult compromise, and about how a teenage mother and her son find regeneration through love. (A Columbia Pictures film, directed by Penny Marshall, releasing October 2001, starring Drew Barrymore) (Biography)

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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: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140296298
• ISBN 13: 9780140296297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208