Synopsis Jo is the perfect teenager--attractive, wholesome, a cheer leader. But then she meets a "wild" boy, several years older, who jars her complacency and leaves her damaged, but wiser.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1992-05-01 | | Series: | Front Porch Paperbacks | | Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Publisher's Note An honest revelation of life growing up in years so recently gone: pep rallies and dope parties, the coming-of-age rituals of a small Southern town in the early seventies. The seemingly trite becomes suddenly startling as we watch a "perfect teenager" explode halfway through her first year in college.
Pep-rallies, dope parties, coming-of-age rituals of a small southern town in the early 1970s--the seemingly trite becomes startling as a "perfect teenager" explodes halfway through her first year in college.
Industry Reviews "Angst is what 'The Cheer Leader' is all about....Jo's first love affair with a 'wild' older boy whom she naively believes loves her, leads to a horrified sense of betrayal, an anorexic breakdown in her first year of college, and finally a tentative recovery." New York Times Book Review - Anne Gottlieb (10/07/1984)
"Jill McCorkle promises the prolific excellence of an Anne Tyler." Allen
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