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The cult classic that defined a generation - first UK publication in 47 years
'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their immortal souls' Los Angeles Times
Sasha Davis has everything a girl in 1950s…
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1 author picked Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This novel might have been published a half-century ago, but the situation—wherein beauty is currency, women’s bodies with their bleeding and their smells are betrayers, and the institution of marriage is, well, an institution—feels more than relevant today. The book’s protagonist, Sasha Davis is a former prom-queen who is aware of all the possibility that exists outside of the confines of her loveless marriage. Liberated, she makes moves to extricate herself from the relationship, but what she can't shed is the very thing that holds her back: her own womanhood. The book’s tone, a sort of “Can you believe I…
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