She Drove Without Stopping
Twenty-year-old Jane Turner sets off on a cross-country adventure, and by the end of her reckless, risky year on the road she's been in love, in danger, in jail, and at last in control again of her own life. Jaimy Gordon, whose earlier books have earned her reputation as a brilliant stylist, here tells the story of a very young, very bold American woman deciding what she wants, and along the way reveals secrets of a special and particularly American woman.
"This may be the novel that women have been trying to write for the last thirty years... [She Drove Without Stopping] offers a wider variety of pleasures than just about any so-called 'women's' classic one can think of. This is a feminist monster from the id: omnivorous, roaring and wildly colorful." — John Domini, American Book Review
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By the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Lord of Misrule
"This may be the novel that women have been trying to write for the last thirty years... [She Drove Without Stopping] offers a wider variety of pleasures than just about any so-called 'women's' classic one can think of. This is a feminist monster from the id: omnivorous, roaring and wildly colorful." — John Domini, American Book Review
Twenty-year-old Jane Turner sets off on a cross-country adventure, and by the end of her reckless, risky year on the road she's been in love, in danger, in jail, and at last in control again of her own life. Jaimy Gordon, whose earlier books have earned her reputation as a brilliant stylist, here tells the story of a very young, very bold American woman deciding what she wants, and along the way reveals secrets of a special and particularly American woman.
"Jane Turner, carfare in her palm and defiance in her heart, is one of the ablest heroines ever to track the American landscape." — Jayne Anne Phillips