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020 $a029921060X (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm56686469
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050 00 $aPS3557.E664$bG58 2005
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100 1 $aGerber, Merrill Joan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80132764
245 10 $aGlimmering girls :$ba novel of the fifties /$cMerrill Joan Gerber.
260 $aMadison :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a249 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aLibrary of American fiction
520 1 $a"Glimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression. Francie and her friends Liz and Amanda are college students, coming of age intellectually, emotionally, and physically in a setting where men were forbidden entry to women's dorm rooms, and women were locked into those rooms after curfew. College life for women was governed by one simple, cardinal rule: Marry Before Graduation or Be Lost Forever. Any thirst for adventure was supposed to be satisfied by the occasional panty raid." "Francie and friends, however, find all this hard to swallow, and they resist their appointed futures as elementary school teachers and holders of the precious "MRS" degree. Doing the unthinkable, the three move off campus to live in a house with three men - Liz's boyfriend and two handsome, mysterious Southern twins who fix foreign cars in a shop off campus. There the young women's rebellion against expectations deepens, and they begin the real-world education of pursuing their dreams." "Francie yearns to be a writer, and is encouraged by her Russian literature professor. Then she meets Joshua, a talented and dedicated piano student, who presents the ultimate challenge: does she maintain her "virtue," or give in to her sexual desires, finally breaking fully free of repressive "respectability"?" "Glimmering Girls follows Francie, Liz, and Amanda through this and other discoveries and adventures. Ultimately, each finds a way to live fully at a time when their entire culture seemed arrayed against them."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aNineteen fifties$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010103751
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd
830 0 $aLibrary of American fiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002028774
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004023302.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3557.E664$iG58 2005