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"Wry,
dark and racy ... deals with many levels of the intimate relationships
women have." "If
the lesbian love story of Other Girls is most likely to attract attention,
it's the skill with which Ayres captures campus life in the 70s that
will keep you reading." "Ayres
is a talented writer...I
was struck time and time again by her intelligent humor and witty dialogue,
and the puns that sparkle throughout the book." Diane Ayres does for same-sex schools what Donna Tartt's The Secret History did for co-eds, weaving a tangled web of Lesbian Vampires, Lovesick Professors, Premature Ejaculators and Swashbuckling Romantics in her Breakout Debut Novel Other Girls What really goes on behind the ivy-covered walls of a women's college? Welcome to the complicated life of Elizabeth Breedlove, a frosh at Willard College for Women. With Other Girls (Kensington, hardcover and paperback) debut novelist Diane Ayres transports readers to a picturesque, cigarette-smoke-hazy academia where an unlikely love triangle -- or is it a quadrangle? -- is about to turn life at one of America's most elite women's colleges upside down.Weaving a tangled, colorful web of young and intense emotion, Ayres tells a seductive story about the pain of love and the burdens of growing up that evokes Donna Tartt's A Secret History, the academic romps of Robertson Davies and David Lodge, and even the work of J.D. Salinger. Smart, engrossing, hilariously literate and frighteningly accurate, Other Girls is set in the exclusive - and currently endangered - world of women's colleges. But its timeless narrative and startlingly human characters make it an equal opportunity page-turner about coming of age. MORE |
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