The Revolution of Little Girls

By Blanche McCrary Boyd

Book Overview

No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the wry, rebellious, and vision-haunted heroine of this exhilarating novel may sometimes seem to be living a magnolia-scented Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Blanche McCrary Boyd's The Revolution Of Little Girls is a completely original arid captivating work. From the Trade Paperback edition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679400907
• ISBN13: 9780679400905
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Simply Put...

This book is amazing...the ending is still in my mind two weeks after having read the story... If you want a typical story about Southern women feeling strong due to their alcoholism that developed as a result of too many nights sipping mimosas under weeping willows in Louisiana, then by all means, pick up 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' or anything by Kaye Gibbons. But if you want a story about a Southern woman with grace, hilarity, and moving depth, read this book. You WILL laugh, you WILL be made uncomfortable, you WILL wonder just what is going on, and you WILL adore the ending, and thus, you WILL enjoy the genius of the work as a whole.

Excellent

I found this to be a great book, and a good balance of humour, articulate writing, and honesty that cuts to the core. Boyd never ceases to amaze me with her ability to describe the intangible, or hint at things without really using words to describe. She leads you on with the essence of true experience and a gorgeous play of words.

Cool book

This book was so cool. Everyone should read it. It is soo funny and you learn the facts of life.

Hope it never ends!

I am at page 78 of this book whose words went right into my heart....

Truly an amusing story which almost everyone can relate to.

This is a brief overview through the life of Ellen Burns. As a little girl, Ellen finds herself to be a tomboy, for she perfers to play in a rough manner. As an adult, she realizes she's a lesbian. She also feels as if her life is incomplete, but the "little girls" help her realize what she's missing in life. This book is full of interesting and amusing situations that Ellen goes through while becoming a woman. Situations that almost everyone goes through.