- Hardcover: 255 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr (Sep 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0871135779
- ISBN-13: 978-0871135773
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 808,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lola Hart is writing her life in her diary. She is a little rich girl, cushioned from the horrors that lurk in the New York streets. But Lola is about to undergo the same transformation as her city. This book charts Lola's journey from middle-class affluence to a life of violence.
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It’s just a little later than now and Lola Hart is writing her life in a diary. She’s a nice middle-class girl on the verge of her teens who schools at the calm end of town.
A normal, happy, girl.
But in a disintegrating New York she is a dying breed. War is breaking out on Long Island, the army boys are flamethrowing the streets, five Presidents have been assassinated in a year. No one notices any more. Soon Lola and her family must move over to the Lower East side – Loisaida – to the Pit and the new language of violence of the streets.
The metamorphosis of the nice Lola Hart into the new model Lola has begun…
“Simply the coolest writer of his generation…Science fiction just doesn’t come any better than this”
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“Not since Kurt Vonnegut in his SF prime has there been a talent so iconoclastically sparkling as Womack’s”
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
“If you dropped the characters from 'Nueromancer' into Womack’s Manhattan, they’d fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns”
WILLIAM GIBSON
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a ride. This is the first of his books I have read and it has been a while since I read something with a unique enough edge to make it enjoyable. The story follows the downhill slide of a 12 year old girl in near future New York, and is written as if it where the girls diary. Intelligently written and you become easily convinced you have stumbled on a childs diary.
Impressive stuff and worth a read
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The best Womack book, this is the diary written by a 12-year-old middle-upper-class girl up since the world economy collapses. You're lead through her family's economic downfall and her psychological reactions in an undoubtedly exaggerated but nonetheless believable world. The girl herself is a great character, a true survivor, while the author achieves success in writing about hell in a dispassionate manner. I'd recommend it strongly to anyone who is a little pessimistic about the future.
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If I say this is the diary of a middle-school girl in a dystopian Manhattan, you are going to turn away. If you do, you will be missing one of the better science-fiction novels ever written. The catch is, if I describe the story, you'll miss the surprise as Lola, the central character, reacts to each change around her. It's beautifully structured and told, and the end takes a moment's thought to understand, as you have to figure out not who the Ultimate Bad Guys are, but why they are. Womack writes Lola's diary with just the right balance of naivety about the adult world (we never find out why we're in dystopia, but then children don't understand that stuff) and directness about the people she meets and what happens. The slang spoken by Iz, Weezie and Anne is as convincing as the slang spoken by the street kids in The Wire. How he writes at this quality and works as a publicist in publishing, I have no idea.
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