Alix shulman biography of christopher

Fiction

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

The million-copy bestseller reissued as a "feminist classic."

"Furious, fiercely funny, provocaative, sexy, and wise—a must read!" —Dani Shapiro

Burning Questions

“It brought back to me in a rush of emotion the electric sense of discovery which was how the women's movement began for all of us.” —Betty Friedan

On the Stroll

"Achieves an almost Dickensian sense of society's underside." 

—Washington Post

Ménage

“Wry and delicious”—People (starred)
“Wickedly funny”—Boston Globe
“Delectably mischievous”—Booklist

Memoirs

To Love What Is

“A haunting meditation on a love more enduring than the body or mind.” —Boston Globe
“An extraordinary and important book.” —Oliver Sacks

A Good Enough Daughter

“Refreshingly upbeat, infused with insight, affection, and respect.” –NY Times Book Review

Drinking the Rain

“A ten year voyage of discovery [that] could even, if we were willing, change our lives.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Non-Fiction

OBITUARIES

For Children

Awake or Asleep

Picture book exploring the border between dream and reality

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

August 31,
Although this comes tagged as a feminist cult classic, I'd never heard of Shulman before a (male) friend gave me this book as a present. It does a good job of reconstructing the gender constraints of s America though they're almost positioned here as biological essentialisms as the repeated phrase 'boys always go as far as they can and never backwards' reverberates throughout this tale of Sasha's sexual and other tribulations.

In some ways this treads very familiar ground: the gradual realisation of what gender means ('once I started school I learned I would have to choose between hair ribbons and trees, and that if I chose trees I'd have to fight for them. The trees, like the hills, belonged to the boys'), the trauma of adolescent bodies and first periods, the power and powerlessness of teenage female sexuality, college, marriage, maternity.

What Schulman does very well is show us how acculturated Sasha is, the extent to which she internalises s social views of 'good' girls, so that despite reading European classics as a child and studying Philosophy at Columbia, all she really wants is to know that she's perceived as beautiful by the

Fiction

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

The million-copy bestseller reissued as a "feminist classic."

"Furious, fiercely funny, provocaative, sexy, and wise—a must read!" —Dani Shapiro

Burning Questions

“It brought back to me in a rush of emotion the electric sense of discovery which was how the women's movement began for all of us.” —Betty Friedan

On the Stroll

"Achieves an almost Dickensian sense of society's underside." 

—Washington Post

Ménage

“Wry and delicious”—People (starred)
“Wickedly funny”—Boston Globe
“Delectably mischievous”—Booklist

Memoirs

To Love What Is

“A haunting meditation on a love more enduring than the body or mind.” —Boston Globe
“An extraordinary and important book.” —Oliver Sacks

A Good Enough Daughter

“Refreshingly upbeat, infused with insight, affection, and respect.” –NY Times Book Review

Drinking the Rain

“A ten year voyage of discovery [that] could even, if we were willing, change our lives.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Non-Fiction

OBITUARIES

For Children

Awake or Asleep

Picture book exploring the border between dream and reality

American Writers Congress, October,

Raised in Clevel

Books by Alix Kates Shulman

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
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The Little Locksmith
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Drinking the Rain: A Memoir
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Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches
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To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed
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The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism
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Menage: A Novel
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A Good Enough Daughter: A memoir
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Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can
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Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality
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