On the eve of her graduation from a snobbish New York girls school, Stephanie Fairchild, is arrested for starring in a soft core porn movie. What follows is a hysterical romp through debutante parties on Park Avenue and drug dealers' dens downtown as Stephanie, now on probation, tries to stay out of trouble and struggles to keep the attention of her boyfriend, Andrew, a natural-born cad.
Marietta Whittlesey's YESTERDAY's GIRL is a tour de force -- following the privileged NYC preppies of the late sixties/ early seventies through their pot, booze, and sex infused coming of age years -- the tragicomic prose of Whittlesey is bright, tonally spot-on, and often hilarious.
On the eve of her graduation from a snobbish New York girls school, Stephanie Fairchild, is arrested for starring in a soft core porn movie. What follows is a hysterical romp through debutante parties on Park Avenue and drug dealers' dens downtown as Stephanie, now on probation, tries to stay out of trouble and struggles to keep the attention of her boyfriend, Andrew, a natural-born cad.
Marietta Whittlesey's YESTERDAY's GIRL is a tour de force -- following the privileged NYC preppies of the late sixties/ early seventies through their pot, booze, and sex infused coming of age years -- the tragicomic prose of Whittlesey is bright, tonally spot-on, and often hilarious.