Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood - Softcover

Toth, Susan Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345321235 ISBN 13: 9780345321237

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1985

Synopsis

Slumber parties, swimming pools, boyfriends, lakeside summers, family holidays -- Susan Allen Toth has captured it all in this delightful account of growing up in Ames, Iowa, in the 1950s. Charming, wise, funny, poignant, and true, BLOOMING celebrates an innocent and very American way of life.
"Tender and finely textured . . . Mrs. Toth has re-created memories with a journalist's ear and a novelist's touch . . . . she has conveyed more clearly than anyone I've ever read before what it was like to be a girl in the 50s." -- The New York Times Book Review

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"Tender and finely textured . . . Toth has re-created memories with a journalist's ear and a novelist's touch. . . . She has conveyed more clearly than anyone I've ever read before what it was like to be a girl in the '50's."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Susan Allen Toth recalls the Ames of her adolescence in unforced, graceful language, that, without sacrificing either wit or precision, seems as leisured and peaceful as the town itself."
--San Francisco Examiner

"Not only is her book well written, but gosh does she have it right. . . . It's difficult to believe she can remember so well or record with such care. The clarity of her style and the honesty of her introspection evoke an image of a Midwestern Joan Didion."
--The Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

Susan Allen Toth has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's, Victoria, Vogue, McCall's, Travel and Leisure, and many other publications. Her books include Blooming, Ivy Days, How to Prepare for Your High-School Reunion, My Love Affair with England, and England as You Like It. She lives with her husband, James Stageberg, in Minneapolis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0345321235
• ISBN 13: 9780345321237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240