The IHOP Papers
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786717947 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"." according to Tangela L. Cameron. I enjoy reading but this book had no plot whatsoever. Don't buy this book. If you want to read it read it online or sample it first using Google Books.. engaging and hilarious westward yo This is one of the few books that is laugh-out-loud funny. Ali has an extraordinary ability to take the absurdity of life and convey it in a way everyone can relate to. Goaty dreams of being a graceful waitress. She imagines gliding across the restaurant with plates stacked up her arms with such splendor that everyone is forced to stop eating and stare in awe. At the IHOP. (?. Francesca is Unforgettable Rachel Kramer Bussel Ali Liebegott's The IHOP Papers presents a truly original character, Francesca, a streetsmart twenty-year-old who's got lots of plans for her writing and her future, and falls for the women around her, hard. She's in AA, and has moved to San Francisco to follow and lust after Irene, her philosophy teacher from her community college (she's also in love with Maria, her AA spons
The Lambda Literary Award–winning Liebegott (for her book-length poem The Beautifully Worthless) offers strikingly lyrical moments in an otherwise frank narrative of a writer teetering between adolescence and adulthood. (Feb. Twenty-year-old Francesca is a recovering drunk who finds comfort in cutting herself and harbors fantasies of her beautiful AA sponsor, Maria; her former philosophy teacher, Irene; and a soap opera heroine. From Publishers Weekly Liebegott's debut novel is a coming-of-age coming-out in the tradition of Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle, but here, the portrait of an artist as punk waitress is more a celebration of sexuality than humanity. All rights reserved. Having followed Irene to San Francisco, Francesca lands a job at the International House of Pancakes, dreams of becoming "the kind of waitress who can carry fiv
A lonely virgin searching for her sexual identity and obsessed with her philosophy teacher, Francesca has followed her professor, Irene, to California, where Irene has relocated to live with her young male lover and former student. Much to her dismay, she has to wear a ridiculous Heidi of the Alps uniform — which is almost as humiliating as serving the array of speed freaks and other graveyard shift misfits. The new tenants happened to be her childhood babysitter and her alcoholic husband. Francesca, a disgruntled nineteen-year-old lesbian, tries desperately to pull together the pieces of her scattered life. She has fled her hometown, where she rented her childhood room from the new family who moved in when her parents moved out. More than a coming of age story, The IHOP Papers is a comic portrait of survival and self-discovery on the IHOP late shift.. But Francesca's move to San Francisco is no mere coincidence. This hilarioius, heartfelt novel opens with Francesca newly arrived in San Francisco. Once in San Francisco, Francesca is forced to work at the local pancake house. Suicidal and euphoric, Francesca seeks solace in anything and anyone who might distract her from her unrequited love for Irene
Liebegott is a recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her book-length poem, The Beautifully Worthless, was published to acclaim in 2005. Ali Liebegott’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has performed her work throughout the country, including twice with Sister Spit’s Ramblin’ Road Show. She teaches creative writing at UC San Diego.