Showing results for "California Girl" in Literature & Fiction

Finola, a popular LA morning-show host, is famously upbeat until she’s blindsided on live TV by the news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation. While avoiding the tabloids and pretending she’s just fine, she’s crumbling inside. Zennie’s breakup is no big loss. Although the world insists she pair up, she’d rather be surfing. So agreeing to be the surrogate for her best friend is a no-brainer. Ali is used to being overlooked, but when her fiancé sends his disapproving brother to call off the wedding, it’s a new low.

Kalifornien in den 80er-Jahren. Das bedeutet Freiheit, Sex und Rebellion. Mittendrin ein vierzehnjähriges Mädchen, das zwischen ihrer Hippie-Künstlerin-Mutter in L.A. und dem Professoren-Vater in Berkeley hin und her pendelt. Schmerzhaft wird sie sich der Lügen und Exzesse der Erwachsenen bewusst und antwortet darauf, wie es nur ein Teenager kann. Auf der Suche danach, wo sie hingehört und wer sie werden wird, probiert sie Outfits, Identitäten und Drogen und rast mit uns durch ein Leben zwischen erster Liebe und absoluter Verunsicherung.

She is all blond, beautiful motion; tanned and lithe, she represents freedom, youth, and a playful sexuality that is at once seductive and dangerous to a man's soul. The California girl became a national fantasy in the Sixties, a myth that embodied every daydream, set to the rhythm of a Beach Boys anthem. The story is told in the first person by David Levine, a Jewish New Yorker. In 1965, at the beginning of his senior year in high school, he moves with his family to the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.

California has never had a female governor and Morgan Childs is determined to change that with the help of her friends. Gathering the backing of the wealthiest women in California, she convinces her best friend, Brooks Kennedy, to run for governor. Morgan's campaign strategy is nontraditional, but she knows her plan to sexually blackmail each of Brooks's opponents is virtually foolproof. Once she convinces the team of her tactics, they do whatever it takes to get incriminating evidence on Brooks's opponents.