Kinflicks (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Lisa Alther
- First Published: 1975
- 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
The Work
Kinflicks, Lisa Alther’s first published novel, is a funny, realistic account of a young woman growing up in the 1960’s and of her struggle to come to terms with her mother’s approaching death. Virginia (Ginny) Babcock’s story is told in chapters which alternate between her own narrative of her growing up and third-person narrations of the present (about 1974) in which she returns to her Tennessee home to be with her desperately ill mother. In both story lines, the emphasis is on Ginny’s attempts to define herself sexually and as a member of a family....
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