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All the Pretty People
Tales of Carob, Shame, and Barbie-Envy
2011
First Published
4.20
Average Rating
144
Number of Pages
Told through an authentic voice, the flash-memoir stories in this book bring out all of the dirt on the 1970s suburban hippies that author Ariel Gore used to know in California—the pretty people she wanted to be but never quite felt she was. At times heartrending and heartwarming, it’s a queer love story with no shortage of shame, violence, and Barbie envy.
Avg Rating
4.20
Number of Ratings
51
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Author

Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore
Author · 18 books
ARIEL GORE is the author of We Were Witches (The Feminist Press, 2017), The End of Eve (Hawthorne Books, 2014), and numerous other books on parenting, the novel The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, the memoir Atlas of the Human Heart, and the writer’s guide How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness in January 2010.
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