{"product_id":"if-youre-a-girl","title":"If You're a Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnn Rower's first book, If You're a Girl, published by Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series in 1991 in tandem with Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, cemented her reputation as the Eve Babitz of lower Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRower was fifty-three years old at the time. Her stories—urtexts of female autofiction—had long been circulating within the poetry and postpunk music scenes. They were unlike anyone else's: disarming, embarrassing, psuedoconfessional tales of everyday life dizzily told and laced with dry humor. In If You're a Girl, she recounts her adventures as Timothy Leary's babysitter, her artistic romance with actor Ron Vawter, and her attempts to evade a schizophrenic stalker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRower went on to publish two novels: Armed Response (1995) and Lee \u0026amp; Elaine (2002). After the 2002 suicide of her partner, the writer Heather Lewis, Rower stopped writing for almost two decades. And then she picked up where If You're a Girl left off. No longer a girl, she produced dozens of stories from her life in New York as an octogenarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new, expanded edition includes most of the original book, together with selections from both her novels and her recent writings. If You're a Girl is a trailblazing book that manifests Rower's influence on a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn't be lacking in attitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2024 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Semiotext\u003cbr\u003ePages: 351\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781635902020\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1635902029\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable cellpadding=\"0\" class=\"cf An\" id=\"undefined\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"Ap\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ann Rower","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45759638044938,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781635902020.jpg?v=1717760085","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/if-youre-a-girl","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}