Bobbie Ann Mason

The Girl Sleuth

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In this long out-of-print work, Bobbie Ann Mason reminisces about her childhood reading of the girl detective series books. With a nostalgic but critical eye, she draws on observations of popular culture and on memories of growing up in the fifties to describe the pleasures and effects of reading mysteries. Mason's recollections of a rural youth spent longing for mysteries to solve represent a quintessential American girlhood experience. Holding up Nancy Drew as a model of the conventional and the revolutionary in one compact package, Mason shows how the series heroines encouraged young readers to dream big and stay open to life's possibiliti… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8203-1739-7
EAN: 9780820317397
Produktnummer: 9205925
Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.3 cm 240 g
Gewicht: 240

Über den Autor

Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of Feather Crowns (winner of the 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction), Shiloh and Other Stories, Love Life: Stories, In Country, and Spence + Lila. She resides in Kentucky.