Kinflicks (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Lisa Alther
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: 1960’s, early 1970’s
- Setting: Tennessee, Massachusetts, and Vermont
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Memory, Suicide, South or Southerners, New England, Women, Death or dying, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Motorcycles or motorbikes
- Locales: Boston, MA, Tennessee, Vermont
Characters Discussed
Virginia Hull Babcock (Ginny) Bliss, the protagonist and narrator of half the novel. The daughter of a plant manager, she is a popular high school girl in Hullsport, Tennessee; she is a cheerleader and girlfriend of the star athlete, with whom she has hilarious introductory sexual experiences. When she loses her virginity, however, it is to one of the tough guys, an outcast. At her father’s insistence, she reluctantly enters a college in Massachusetts (Wellesley, thinly disguised as Worthley), where she comes under the influence of Miss Head, a professor...
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