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Dobie, Kathy The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir
New York, New York, U.S.A. Dial Press 2003 0385318804 / 9780385318808 Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside book: $23.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine, bright pages. - Bookworm and dreamer, Kathy was a young girl with a tender heart, an adventurer’s spirit, and a child’s terrible confusion about her proper place in the world. As the oldest daughter in a family of six children, she seemed trapped in her role as Big Sister and Mommy’s Helper. Then, one day, teetering on the brink of adolescence, hormones surging, she heard someone call her cheesecake, and suddenly saw her path. Cheesecake, jailbait, sex kitten--the very words seemed to be doors opening to a splendid new self. But from the moment she decides to lose her virginity and reels in her prey, a full-grown man, fourteen-year-old Kathy is headed for trouble. One cold, raw March night some months later, parked in a car with four boys on the outskirts of her small suburban town, she finds it. Though she could never have foreseen the outcome of that night, the boys in the car could just as well have been Gypsies foretelling my future, she writes. Girls who break the rules in small towns like the one she lived in are expected to pay a very high price for their transgressions--and she did. And yet...this young girl, as scrappy a protagonist as any in our literature, manages to transform her fate. The story of how she came to be in that car, and how she stepped out of it forever altered, to be sure, yet not forever damaged, is the theme of this extraordinary coming-of-age tale.
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5.00 USD
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