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Meet Ginny Babcock - the forerunner to BRIDGET JONES It's the 1950's and 60's in Hullsport, Tennessee and Ginny Babcock is coming of age. Bouncing from one identity to the other, she adopts the values, politics, lifestyles and even sexual orientation of each new partner she finds. In this... read more
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“It was a smile in excess of any possible stimulus.”
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It seemed a shame for all that energy to be going to waste, dissipating throughout the plane. Ginny suddenly understood the rationale behind child labor. Hooked up to a generator, this child’s ceaseless contortions could have been fueling the plane.
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If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
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folkways of the South, where, as the saying goes, men put women on pedestals and then used the pedestals as
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My family has always been into death.
Table of Contents edit
1 The Art of Dying Well
2 Saturday, June 24
3 Walking the Knife's Edge or Blue Balls in Bibleland
4 Saturday, June 24
5 Harley's, Hoodlums, and Home-Brew
6 Monday. June 26
7 Worthley Material
8 Tuesday, June 27
9 Divided Loyalties
10 Friday, June 30
11 Wedded Bliss
12 Friday, July 7
13 The Mandala Tattoo
14 Saturday, July 22
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- Lisa Alther (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Country: England
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 0701121912
Page Count: 512
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Country: England
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 0701121912
Page Count: 512
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- Dewey: 813
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