HOW TO BUILD A GIRL: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 11701214B68679
English Summary/英文概要： The New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel.
What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself.
It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer—like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntes—but without the dying young bit.
By sixteen, she’s smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She’s writing pornographic letters to rock-stars, having all the kinds of sex with all kinds of men, and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less.
But what happens when Johanna realizes she’s built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters, and a head full of paperbacks, enough to build a girl after all?
Imagine The Bell Jar written by Rizzo from Grease. How to Build a Girl is a funny, poignant, and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 凯特琳•莫伦，这位新新纽约时代畅销书作家被誉为“蒂娜•费，切尔西•汉德勒和丽娜•丹恩的三者合体”。《如何塑造一个女孩》作品感人至深，在小说界划下了新的时代。
青少年的时候你在做些什么？当你意识到父母教你的一切已经不够的时候，你必须自己走出去找些书，诗集来看，听些流行音乐，和坏孩子为伍，选择该如何塑造自己。
1990年，14岁的约翰娜•莫瑞根因为自己在当地电视台表现糟糕而羞愧不已，所以她决定改头换面，她不再是约翰娜•莫瑞根，她将自己重塑为多丽•王尔德，一个语速过快，经常酗酒的哥特式英雄，并且是《性感的女性冒险家》的全职作者。她要通过写作使自己贫穷的波西米亚家族变得富裕起来，就像《小妇人》中的乔，或者勃朗特姐妹一样，但自己绝不会英年早逝。
16岁起，多丽就开始抽烟酗酒。她给摇滚明星寄色情信件，与各种各样的男人发生关系，为乐队写些600字左右的评论。
但是约翰娜忽然意识到多丽的人生其实是个彻头彻尾的失败，她该怎么办？满箱的磁带，满墙的海报，满脑的廉价书籍，这些足够塑造一个女孩了吗？
《如何塑造一个女孩》有趣，深刻，自我发现和重塑的过程又是如此令人心碎，且听凯特琳•莫伦娓娓道来。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“深刻，豪放，却又如此有趣。”——海伦•菲尔丁,《为男生疯狂》和《BJ单身日记》的作者
“这本独到深刻的书籍正是女性需要的”——《泰晤士报文学副刊》
“在美丽的表面下，是疼痛却又有趣的家庭生活记忆。”——《观察者报》
“所有人都必须读的一本书籍。”——《伦敦晚报》
“Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny.” (Helen Fielding, author of Mad About the Boy and Bridget Jones’s Diary)
“This brilliantly argued and urgently needed book- highly comic and deadly serious- is precisely what feminism has been waiting for”----Times Literary Supplement
“Underneath beautiful, aching and hilarious memories of family life, it’s a true polemic”---- Observer
“a must-read for all humans”----Evening Standard
"Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny" Helen Fielding
"Brilliantly observed, thrillingly rude and laugh-out-loud funny" Helen Fielding
"I have so much love for Caitlin Moran" Lena Dunham
“Caitlin Moran’s spirited coming-of-age tale romps from strength to strength… [and] pulses with an energy and enthusiasm distinctive to adolescence” Lionel Shriver, The Times
The UK edition of HOW TO BUILD A GIRL has almost sold 100,000 copies in paperback and e-book.
About the Author/作者介绍： 凯特琳•莫伦自18岁起就是《泰晤士报》的专栏作家，她获得了2010年英国新闻奖颁发的“年度专栏作家”，随后在2011年，她又获得了“年度评论家”和“年度记者”的称号。《如何塑造一个女孩》是一本国际畅销书，已在25个国家出版，并获奖无数，包括2011年国家图书奖的“年度书籍”。详情请见：Twitter @caitlinmoran.Caitlin Moran has been a columnist at The Times (London) since she was 18. She won ‘Columnist of the Year’ at the British Press Awards in 2010 and followed this with ‘Critic of the Year’ and ‘Interviewer of the Year’ in 2011. HOW TO BE A WOMAN was an international bestseller, published in 25 countries, and an instant New York Times bestseller. It won numerous prizes, including the National Book Awards 2011 ‘Book of the Year’. You can follow Caitlin on Twitter @caitlinmoran.
Format:HARDCOVER
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Ebury Press (pub July 2014); US & Canada: HarperCollins (pub September 2014); Finland: Schildts; France: Flammarion; Germany: Carl’s Books; Holland: Nijgh & Van Ditmar; Norway: Glydendal; Spain: Anagrama; Sweden: Bonniers
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