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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780767914291 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Through her clear eyes, She's Not There provides a new window on the confounding process of accepting our true selves.
Review:
"In addition to being a complete delight, this book should make us all question what we mean when we use the words love, marriage, and friendship. Jennifer Finney Boylan is a great gift to womanhood." Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy
Review:
"[B]rings irreverence and a merrily outrageous sense of humor to this potentially serious business....What [Boylan] accomplishes, most entertainingly, is to draw the reader into extremely strange circumstances as if they were utterly normal." Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Review:
"[L]impid, soul-rich....Serious, real, funny. Told so disarmingly that it's strong enough to defang a taboo." Kirkus Reviews
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"Boylan has a good comic ear, and that humor keeps the book...on track if somewhat trivialized: most scenes are breezy and played for laughs....[F]requently poignant...yet those moments don't cut to the quick of the story..." Publishers Weekly
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"Probably no book I've read in recent years has made me so question my basic assumptions about both the centrality and the permeability of gender, and made me recognize myself in a situation I've never known and have never faced....The universality of the astonishingly uncommon: that's the trick of She's Not There. And with laughs, too. What a good book." Anna Quindlen, from the Introduction to the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition
Synopsis:
By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Boylan's personal story of changing genders explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family.
Synopsis:
The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Through her clear eyes, She's Not There provides a new window on the confounding process of accepting our true selves.
Probably no book I've read in recent years has made me so question my basic assumptions about both the centrality and the permeability of gender, and made me recognize myself in a situation I've never known and have never faced . . . The universality of the astonishingly uncommon: that's the trick of She's Not There, And with laughs, too. What a good book. --Anna Quindlen, from the Introduction to the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.
About the Author
Jennifer Finney Boylan is co-chair of the English department at Colby College. As James Finney Boylan she wrote three critically praised novels and a collection of short stories. She lives in Maine with her family.
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ksz4, November 27, 2007 (view all comments by ksz4)
wow, this book is absolutely amazing. It answers all of the questions I have always wanted to know about transgender experience, but have been too afraid to ask.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780767914291
- Subtitle:
- A Life in Two Genders
- Author:
- Afterword by:
- Russo Richard
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Broadway Books
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Gender identity
- Subject:
- Novelists, American
- Subject:
- Personal Memoirs
- Subject:
- Specific Groups - General
- Copyright:
- 2004
- Edition Number:
- Paperback ed.
- Edition Description:
- Trade Pbk
- Publication Date:
- August 2004
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 8.06x5.22x.69 in. .58 lbs.
