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Come diventare una ragazza (2014)

di Caitlin Moran

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Serie: How to Build a Girl (1)

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Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!

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 heroesâ??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 Wildeâ??fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writerâ??like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntesâ??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… (altro)

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  postsign | Dec 28, 2023 |
I adored Moran's "How to be a Woman", and giggled helplessly all the way through.
This book is less funny, more sad in the end, as Johanna Morrigan struggles through a life of poverty and her father's alcoholism and somehow, despite it all, succeeds in spite of herself.

Moran's voice is strong throughout and she really gets the mentality of a teenage girl, confused and lacking self-esteem. I felt like cheering when she got places, empathized when she failed.

At the end, I still wasn't sure if she'd got there. If she was safe. I felt an itchy sense of foreboding, but maybe that's because as a parent, I know how things can slip off track.

That said, I found myself laughing myself senseless over a few scenes, and feeling the truth of others. That in itself is the problem - at times Moran is telling the story, at times she is offering her wisdom as the author. It's all a bit confusing - switching between a 14 year old voice to a world weary and given to pithy sayings adult takes a bit out of the story.

Still, a fun, quick read and a window into life. I loved the snail-racing...reminded me of what we often had to do for amusement. ( )
  Dabble58 | Nov 11, 2023 |
Kept me reading, but there's not a lot of depth of subtlety. ( )
  oldblack | Mar 30, 2022 |
I had heard so many good things about this book, I had to give it a read. While I understand the praise it has gotten and agree with a lot of it, I think my expectations overshadowed the book for me.

How to Build a Girl centers on Johanna Morrigan as she invents a new version of herself that she dubs "Dolly Wilde." Unlike Johanna, who is awkward and chubby and whose family lives on her father's disability benefits, Dolly Wilde is a cool music reviewer who wears all black and is a self-proclaimed Lady Sex Adventurer. It's a coming of age story about a girl who is doing everything she can to help her struggling family and herself, if only by masking the things she doesn't like.

I think we can all relate to the embarrassing and foot-in-mouth moments throughout this book. We've all made bad jokes and messed up the name of a band we mentioned to seem cooler. We've all tried to seem sexy, and aloof, and misunderstood. There were moments in this book that I was full-on cringing because of the honesty in portrays. I really think if I had happened on this book earlier in life, I would loved it. ( )
  CarleyShea | Sep 16, 2021 |
Johanna wächst 1990 in einer Siedlung auf, die man wohl als Problemviertel bezeichnen kann. Auch in der Familie geht es nicht gerade geordnet zu. Der Vater träumt seit ewigen Zeiten von einer Karriere als Rockstar. Die Mutter, die schon ein paar Schwangerschaften hinter sich hat, übersieht die eindeutigen Anzeichen und glaubt an eine Magenverstimmung. In diesem Umfeld wächst die 14jährige Johanna auf und hat auch ihre Träume. Es sind die Träume einer pubertierenden Jugendlichen: Sex haben und Partys, natürlich berühmt und reich werden.
Wir lernen die Geschichte durch Johannas Augen kennen. Sie ist eine Jugendliche in der Pubertät und erlebt damit das ganze Gefühlschaos einer Pubertierenden. In ihrer Familie ist niemand, der sie nun auffängt und ihr eine Hilfe ist. Ihr Vater hat sich im sozialen Netz gut eingerichtet und träumt, statt Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Nach der Geburt der Zwillinge hat die Mutter eine massive Wochenbettdepression. Dann bietet sich Johanna die Chance als Dolly Wilde ihre großen Popkenntnisse als Musikkritikerin in London einzusetzen. Doch daneben gibt es natürlich auch die Gelegenheit, Sex, Alkohol und Drogen auszukosten. Sie schmeißt die Schule und erlebt eine berauschende Zeit.
Verblüfft bin ich allerdings, dass die Familie die finanzielle Unterstützung von Johanna ablehnt und sie auffordert, einen Teil ihrer Einnahmen für später zu sparen. So viel Vernunft hatte ich gar nicht erwartet. Dolly lernt dann auch, dass sie Regeln einhalten muss, damit andere sie mögen und akzeptieren.
Es ist natürlich nicht einfach für ein Mädchen in dem Alter mit dem allem fertig zu werden, aber ihr Verhalten war mir in jeder Beziehung zu extrem. Dass sie am Ende doch noch die Kurve kriegt, macht sie mir trotzdem nicht sympathisch. Aber auch mit den anderen Personen konnte ich mich nicht identifizieren.
Ich habe mich schwer getan mit diesem Buch, was vielleicht auch daran lag, dass ich altersmäßig zu weit von Johanna entfernt bin. Es war mir auch für eine Jugendbuch einfach zu viel Sex. Es ist ein Buch, das polarisiert. Die Thematik, welche Chancen man in einem solchen Umfeld hat, ist eigentlich interessant, aber die Umsetzung hat mir nicht gefallen.
Ich möchte es nicht empfehlen. ( )
  buecherwurm1310 | Jun 2, 2021 |
How to Build a Girl is, in essence, a very British story about class and social privilege. American readers may have to work a little to get the sly social references and regional English. But it's well worth the effort.
aggiunto da Widsith | modificaNPR, Ellah Allfrey (Sep 29, 2014)
 
I wish someone had given me this rowdy and fearless little book when I was 16. […H]er comic novel is sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways.
 
There are some retreads of Moran's past themes – material that seems a tad overfamiliar. […] For all that, the novel is an entertaining read, with Moran in fine voice – hilarious, wild, imaginative and highly valuable. After all, how often do we get to hear the inner voice of a fat, funny, literate, working-class teenager from Wolverhampton? Quite.
aggiunto da Widsith | modificaThe Observer, Barbara Ellen (Jul 7, 2014)
 
I was rocking with laughter in the library, crying with love on the tube. […] Yet when I see this book described as "laugh-out-loud funny" I feel affronted; it could make you laugh out loud with one hand tied behind its back, while wanking itself off to fantasies of Satan. Laughing out loud is just the start.
aggiunto da Widsith | modificaThe Guardian, Zoe Williams (Jul 3, 2014)
 

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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Caitlin Moranautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Brealey, LouiseNarratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:

Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein!

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 heroesâ??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 Wildeâ??fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer. She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writerâ??like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntesâ??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

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