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Girl with Glasses: My Optic History

by Marissa Walsh

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ISBN13: 9781416924937
ISBN10: 1416924930
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Being a Girl with Glasses isn't just a style choice; it's a way of life. If you've ever had your specs steam up when walking into a bar, squinted into the sun on the soccer field, or laid eyes on a new haircut only after your locks are strewn across the floor, you know what it's like to be a GWG.

Marissa Walsh has worn glasses since third grade. Now — ten pairs of glasses, one pair of prescription sunglasses, and endless pairs of contacts later — she has fully embraced her four-eyed fate. As she recounts her optic history through the lenses of each pair of glasses — from the Sergio Valentes and the Sally Jessy Raphaels to the pseudo John Lennons and the dreaded health plan specs — at last she found them . . . the perfect pair.

Marissa's comic look at a life behind glass is at once a poignant personal journey and a wry, canny exploration of just what it means to be a glasses-wearing kind of girl. Peppered with pop culture references and complete with appendixes of resources, classic GWG moments, and helpful tips on finding the right frames for your face, Girl with Glasses will give you reason to commiserate with your shortsighted sisters and celebrate your less-than-perfect vision.

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Part witty memoir, part eye-opening cultural study, "Girl with Glasses" is a rousing tribute that proves four eyes are better than two. Illustrations.

About the Author

Marissa Walsh, a former children's book editor in New York City, is the coauthor of the Boston Globe bestseller Tipsy in Madras: A Complete Guide to 80s Preppy Drinking and editor of the anthology Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything: The Jealousy Book. She is a graduate of Smith College, home to many former, current, and future Girls with Glasses.

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ISBN:
9781416924937
Subtitle:
My Optic History
Author:
Walsh, Marissa
Illustrator:
Logan, Jason
Author:
Logan, Jason
Publisher:
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Subject:
General
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Patients
Subject:
Eye-glasses
Subject:
Personal Growth - Happiness
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Myopia.
Copyright:
Publication Date:
October 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
YES
Pages:
227
Dimensions:
7 x 5 in

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