Normal Girl - Softcover

Jong-Fast, Molly

2.94

655 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340748109 ISBN 13: 9780340748107

Publisher: Sceptre, 2000

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'Someone once said Andy Warhol's funeral was like being at Studio 54. Jeff's funeral is the equivalent of being at Planet Hollywood. My plan is this: go to funeral, make appearance, leave, go to Greenwich with some people I find at the funeral. When in Greenwich, stay in mother's massive house and have big orgy-drug party. But I'm flexible.'

Miranda is young, rich and famous, frantically filling the void at the centre of her life with a high-voltage cocktail of designer people, designer labels and designer drugs. But Jeff's death makes Miranda think again. After all, this girl doesn't want to be an afterthought before she's twenty ...

Molly Jong- Fast's controversial first novel is a frightening look at the lives of a privileged elite. Sharply observed, often funny, often shocking and brutal, it is a critical look at the indulgences of the 'Me Generation' and a rallying call for a new morality.

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Review:

So much talent, so young a writer! Hard-edged, savage, funny, brilliant. (Fay Weldon)

'It is part autobiography, part daughter's revenge and part elaboration of her new-found, old fashioned prescription for living.' Philip Delves Broughton, Weekend Telegraph

'[Molly Jong-Fast] spares no blushes' Observer

Normal Girl is a searing, bitchy, funny novel about priviledge in wretched excess and the accidental nature of grace--a fin de siecle East Coast Less Than Zero from the female point of view. Molly Jong-Fast is a prodigy. Parents everywhere should be horrified by this deeply impressive debut. (Jay McInerney)

'[Normal Girl] is already poised to be as talked-about as Fear of Flying' Brendan Lemon, Interview Magazine

She rides the roller-coaster of her teenage years (Daily Telegraph)

'Wise-cracking, straight-talking, funny and fast' Aura

It is part autobiography, part daughter's revenge and part elaboration of her new-found, old fashioned prescription for living (Philip Delves Broughton, Weekend Telegraph)

[Molly Jong-Fast] spares no blushes (Observer)

'Witty and riveting' Chrissy Iley, Sunday Times

Book Description:

'The Beautiful and Damned' for the new millennium

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