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"An eloquent account of a remarkable life, Project Girl should be placed on all high school and college reading lists and offered to anyone looking for a book beautifully written."--Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes
"In her engrossing memoir, McDonald, a Brooklyn-born lawyer now living in Paris, compares herself to Icarus because she, too, soared and fell mightily. The difference is that after her falls, McDonald picked herself up and charged onward."--Sara Ivry, New York Times Book Review
"Devastating. . . . McDonald argues her case with lawyerly concision, drop-dead ghetto humor, and just a touch of schoolgirl psychobabble. . . . No wonder McDonald fled to Paris, where, freed from the American obsession with race, she wrote this stinging epitaph for the decade that gave us the word yuppie."--Susanne Ruta, Entertainment Weekly
"Going to the bookstore is becoming more and more like riding in a subway--there are a whole bunch of people with stories to tell but very few who know how to tell a good story. Every once in a while though, we might find ourselves sitting next to someone whose story is so intriguing that we actually miss our stop because we are so engrossed in their tale. Such is the effect of Janet McDonald's Project Girl."--Deborah Cowell, Black Issues Book Review
"In her engrossing memoir, McDonald, a Brooklyn-born lawyer now living in Paris, compares herself to Icarus because she, too, soared and fell mightily. The difference is that after her falls, McDonald picked herself up and charged onward."--Sara Ivry, New York Times Book Review
"Devastating. . . . McDonald argues her case with lawyerly concision, drop-dead ghetto humor, and just a touch of schoolgirl psychobabble. . . . No wonder McDonald fled to Paris, where, freed from the American obsession with race, she wrote this stinging epitaph for the decade that gave us the word yuppie."--Susanne Ruta, Entertainment Weekly
"Going to the bookstore is becoming more and more like riding in a subway--there are a whole bunch of people with stories to tell but very few who know how to tell a good story. Every once in a while though, we might find ourselves sitting next to someone whose story is so intriguing that we actually miss our stop because we are so engrossed in their tale. Such is the effect of Janet McDonald's Project Girl."--Deborah Cowell, Black Issues Book Review
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- Title Project Girl
- Author Janet McDonald
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 231
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A
- Publication date 2000-10-10
- ISBN 9780520223455 / 0520223454
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.07 x 0.76 in (23.11 x 15.42 x 1.93 cm)
- Age range 14 to 17 years
- Grade levels 9 - 12
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99086211
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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