Ginny Good by Gerard Jones
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2004
- Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing Company
- Format: Paperback, 350pp
- Series: Monkfish Memoirs Ser.
- ISBN-13: 9780972635752
- ISBN: 0972635750
Synopsis
". . . captures the spirit of the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960's and 1970's and tells the story of Jones' life as Ginny ("the first hippie") drifts into and out of it."-Publishers Marketplace in their "Deal of the Day" column.
"A soothingly disturbing bittersweet elixir. By turns deliciously funny and poignantly painful, it wanders and rambles in and out of the messiness of life. It's real. It's human. You will be different for having immersed yourself in it. Ginny Good has the soul and guts and truth of a classic of American Literature."-Donna McDougle, author and book reviewer
Gerard Jones is the infamous creator of the Everyone Who's Anyone in Trade Publishing website.
Biography
A Biography of Sorts
I've been writing stuff on and off all my adult life. Forty years. I've worked at it, sweated over it, worried about rhythm and cadence and the efficacy of individual words in individual sentences. I've come up with a voice that feels reasonably casual and credible enough to say true stuff, but still leaves room to throw in a little lyrical language when it's justified. I've always been pretty selective. Whatever I've written usually zips right along. What I've had to say has been somewhat germane to the affairs of human existence. Some of the stuff was probably even a little illuminating-like the stuff about Ginny Good in the early sixties, for example.
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February 04, 2005: It turns from pretty good literary memoir into sounding like a guy just remembering things in no particular order. If you like this sort of thing, Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is much better.
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April 22, 2004: I don?t swoon easily. This book made me swoon.
It?s a sort of sweeping epic about the 1960s, but please-oh-please don?t think ?Forrest Gump.? Not that it was a bad movie; it had its own quirky appeal, presenting the swirling, tumultuous, revolutionary era from the removed viewpoint of a simpleton. This book does the opposite. It?s the UN-Forrest Gump. It looks at the world of that era from the inside out, going deep inside characters who are as smart and intense and flawed and insane and real as any characters you have ever met. You will fall in love.
And oh?may I continue swooning??the writing is as straightforward as Raymond Carver?s and as honest as J.D. Salinger?s. It may be the most unpretentious thing you will ever read.
Did I mention that it?s funny, too? It truly is.
At its heart, Ginny Good is about love and friendship. And insanity and heartbreak. And sex and drugs and spiritual yearnings. Stop me. Just go read it already.
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