Fiction. In scenes reminiscent of The Bell Jar and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, the intelligent neurotic heroine of BOBBY'S GIRL intertwines fantasy and reality. Her dream world is an exaggeration of the common romantic fantasies young teens develop after pouring over fan magazines. But even in this dream world the heroine experiences failure. By facing the failures in her fantasies she learns how to deal with the problems in her life, gradually growing free of her suffocating family and making new friends. With a breathtakingly direct style and a searing authenticity, Ratner tells a story of the drab and the glamorous, of fear and hard-won joy.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA