Dimensions
129 x 198 x 14mm
A sophisticated coming-of-age memoir tracing a modern Holly Golightly from girl- to womanhood and from fantasy to reality.
From the glittering skyscrapers of Manhattan’s media elite to the slacker haven of a fashionably low-rent L.A. bar, Strawberry Saroyan traces her journey not only from girl to womanhood, but from fantasy to reality. A powerful and profoundly post-modern coming of age story, with a voice reminiscent of Liz Phair one moment and Mary McCarthy the next, 'Girl Walks into a Bar' explores Saroyan’s struggle not only with who she is and who she wants to be, but also who she is in the context of what she’s supposed to embody: the iconic media-promulgated ‘girl’, a 21st-century version of Audrey Hepburn standing outside Tiffany’s looking at diamonds.
'Girl Walks into a Bar' takes a handful of the most striking and formative episodes of Saroyan’s life and brings them to the page as a filmmaker might, zeroing in on the crucial ‘scenes’: losing her virginity, starting her own riot girly magazine, falling in dysfunctional love. Yet all the while, she’s trailed by that other black-clad girl, the Platonic ideal of so many modern young women’s fantasies. Will they ever meet? That question lies at the heart of Saroyan’s genre-bending memoir. 'Girl Walks into a Bar' promises to be one of the most memorable debuts of the year.
