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The Girl Sleuth - On the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton and Cherry Ames (Paperback)
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The Girl Sleuth - On the Trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton and Cherry Ames (Paperback)
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Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
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The Girl Sleuth is a book for anyone who fondly recalls her
late-night adventures inside a bedspread cave with a flashlight, a
handful of snitched cookies, and a savvy heroine who has just two
chapters left in which to decode the message, find the jewels,
unmask the impostor, and then catch the next express to the big
city. In this long-out-of-print work, which was first published in
1975, Bobbie Ann Mason examines the girl detective in her various
guises through a combination of childhood reminiscences and
insights as a fiction writer and observer of American popular
culture. Mason ranges in her coverage from the Bobbsey Twins to the
glamorous career-girl detectives Vicki Barr, Cherry Ames, and
Beverly Gray to her own adolescent favorites--Judy Bolton, Nancy
Drew, and Trixie Belden, a farm girl like herself. Mason's personal
recollections of a rural youth spent longing for mysteries to solve
represent a quintessential American girlhood experience. Mason
reveals Nancy Drew ("as cool as Mata Hari and as sweet as Betty
Crocker") to be a paradoxical figure: on the one hand a model of
independence and courage; on the other, a lady, eternally feminine
and firmly devoted to the preservation of middle-class values. The
girl sleuths "thrilled us and contented us at the same time," the
author writes. Holding up Nancy Drew as a model of "the
conventional and the revolutionary in one compact package," Mason
shows how the series heroines encouraged young readers to "dream
big" and stay open to life's possibilities, dished up antidotes to
spoon-fed notions of traditional femininity, and amiably subverted
the literary snobbery of child experts, librarians, and book
reviewers. Everyone who grew up reading mystery books will enjoy
Bobbie Ann Mason's witty, sometimes nostalgic, observations on
popular culture, childhood, and the pleasures of reading and
writing.
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