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Bobby's Girl
116 pages (December 1986)
Coffeehouse Pr; ISBN: 0918273226
$9.95
Excerpted reviews:
"The Atlantic City native
has chosen her home turf as the setting for a fascinating, highly
readable account of the struggle of a teen-age girl to separate
fact from fantasy as she grows up... [Ratner] interweaves with clarity
and style the sparkle of fantasy and the routine sameness of the
heroine's middle-class existence. She has an ear for language and
an eye for vision that make the book a masterful portrait of an
unhappy teenager hungry for acceptance and understanding but caught
up in a world of showbiz and superficial values."
- Terry Andrews, St. Paul Pioneer Press and
Dispatch
[The heroine's] fantasies are as
vivid and colorful as the glossy teen-age-idol photos in her collection
of magazines, while reality is dull black and white. She is an only
child, middle class and unpopular... Ms. Ratner's faithfulness to
her heroine's narrowed vision leaves the reader with the sensation
of mental illness, helplessly spinning to a stack of 45s.
- Jill McCorkle, NY Times Book Review
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"If you've got a precocious
ninth-grader who's into Motown and madness, give this book a try
with him or her."
- Jim Nechas, Rodale's Children
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The Lion's Share
174 pages (September 1991)
Coffeehouse Pr; ISBN: 0918273870
$10.95
Excerpted reviews:
"Dominating this story of
a thirtysomething artist living in Manhattan is her struggle with
healing the wounds left from being sexually abused as a child. Jana
Replansky is a respected curator for the Paperworks Space (a successful,
nonprofit gallery), a painter, and - a virgin. Early on in this
quirky novel, she states emphatically, "Virginity - it isn't a disease,"
but it has, in fact, become a burden. Enter Ed Gabrielli. The author
explores themes dealing with censorship and the arts and the creative
process. But primarily, Ratner chronicles the evolution of a contemporary,
urban relationship - albeit quite an unusual one."
- Alice Joyce, Booklist
"A very well-written look
at the emotions and problems Jana has encountered, this is recommended
for all public libraries." - Library Journal
"The Lion's Share reads
like an adult Judy Bloom novel."
- Sara Mosle, New York Newsday
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