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'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 ...
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So much talent, so young a writer! Hard-edged, savage, funny, brilliant. (Fay Weldon)
'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
Normal 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
'[Molly Jong-Fast] spares no blushes' Observer
breathtakingly fast and accomplished first novel. Not only can Miss Jong-Fast write like an angel, she is also capable of genuine emotion (Daily Mail)
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)
'[Normal Girl] is already poised to be as talked-about as Fear of Flying' Interview Magazine
a snappy and sassy tale of New York upper-class deprivation in the mould of Bret Easton Ellis (Image Magazine)
'Wise-cracking, straight-talking, funny and fast' Aura
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'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
Normal 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
'[Molly Jong-Fast] spares no blushes' Observer
breathtakingly fast and accomplished first novel. Not only can Miss Jong-Fast write like an angel, she is also capable of genuine emotion (Daily Mail)
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)
'[Normal Girl] is already poised to be as talked-about as Fear of Flying' Interview Magazine
a snappy and sassy tale of New York upper-class deprivation in the mould of Bret Easton Ellis (Image Magazine)
'Wise-cracking, straight-talking, funny and fast' Aura
'The Beautiful and Damned' for the new millennium
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0340748117
- ISBN 13 9780340748114
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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