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A brilliant exploration of the sexual and intellectual awakening of a young American woman struggling to remain true to herelf as she encounters love, passion, and death amid the challenges and heartbreaks of growing up.Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamann's Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman on the brink of adulthood. A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. Centring on Evie's fragile relationship with her family and her thwarted love affair with Harrison Rourke, a professional boxer, the novel is both a love story and an exploration of the difficulty of finding one's place in the world. As Evie surrenders to the dazzling emotional highs of love and the crippling loneliness of heartbreak, she strives to reconcile her identity with the constraints that all relationships-whether those familial or romantic, uplifting to the spirit or quietly detrim

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Author

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Publisher

Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781742690995

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.5 / 5 (215 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14