Normal Girl
Published on 3. May 2000
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Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-340-74810-7 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
So much talent, so young a writer! Hard-edged, savage, funny, brilliant. - Fay WeldonNormal 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
She rides the roller-coaster of her teenage years - Daily Telegraph
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 already poised to be as talked-about as Fear of Flying - Brendan Lemon, Interview Magazine
it sparkles with an acerbic wit while providing a wry commentary on fashionable NYC society that holds its own alongside Molly's contemporary literary heroes like Tama Janowitz and Bret Easton Ellis. - The Face
a snappy and sassy tale of New York upper-class deprivation in the mould of Bret Easton Ellis - Image Magazine
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
n/a
Dimensions
Height: 20 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 234 mm
Weight
379 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-74810-7 (9780340748107)
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Person
Molly Jong-Fast is the daughter and granddaughter of distinguished writers: writing is in her blood. After much publicised battles with drugs, alcohol and eating disorders, she is a powerful voice for her generation. Molly Jong-Fast lives in Manhattan.