| Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A. Contributor(s): Soffee, Anne Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556525869 ISBN-13: 9781556525865 Publisher: Chicago Review Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: After college, Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and smalltime heavy metal flack. This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005008628 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.9" W x 8.62" (0.94 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy metal flack. This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction. |