This is what it’s like to be a high-school-age girl.
To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.
To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.
To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind.
This is what it’s like to be a college-age woman.
To live through heartbreak.
To suffer the consequences of your choices.
To depend on others for survival but to have no one to trust but yourself.
This is Anthropology of an American Girl.
A literary sensation, this extraordinarily candid novel about the experience of growing up female in America will strike a nerve in readers of all ages.
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“Remember what it feels like to be seventeen? Eveline Auerbach sounds like somebody many of us knew—or were. . . . A realistic, resonant, and universal story.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“As vast and ambitious as the country itself.”—Carolyn See, The Washington Post
“If publishers could figure out a way to turn crack into a book, it’d read a lot like [Anthropology of an American Girl]. Hamann’s debut traces the sensual, passionate, and lonely interior of a young woman artist growing up in windswept East Hampton at the end of the 1970s. . . . A marvelously complex and tragic figure of disconnection, startlingly real and exposed at all times.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[A] page-turning read [that] rivets through a rawness of complex emotion . . . Like Jane Austin, George Eliot or Edith Wharton, [Hamann] critiques her era and culture through the tale of a precocious young woman buffeted by the accidents, values and consequences of her age.”—Providence Journal-Bulletin
“Utterly original . . . a rare kind of novel—at once sprawling and intimate—whose excellence matches its grand ambition.”—The Dallas Morning News
“[A] serious descendant of the work of D. H. Lawrence.”—The Washington Post
About the Author
Hilary Thayer Hamann was born and raised in New York. After her parents divorced, she was shuttled between their respective homes in the Hamptons and the Bronx. She attended New York University, where she received a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production and Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and a Certificate in Anthropological Filmmaking from NYU’s Center for Media, Culture, and History.
Ms. Hamann edited and contributed to Categories—On The Beauty of Physics (2006), an interdisciplinary educational book that was included in Louisiana State University’s list of top 25 non-fiction books written since 1950.
As the assistant to Jacques d’Amboise, founder and artistic director of the National Dance Institute, Ms. Hamann produced We Real Cool, a short film based on the Gwendolyn Brooks poem, directed by Academy Award-winning director Emile Ardolino. She also coordinated an international exchange with students from America and the then Soviet Union based on literature, music, and art. She has worked in New York’s film, publishing, and entertainment industries, and is co-director of Films on the Haywall, a classic film series in Bridgehampton, New York.
Ms. Hamann lives in Manhattan and on Long Island.
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Ms. Hamann edited and contributed to Categories—On The Beauty of Physics (2006), an interdisciplinary educational book that was included in Louisiana State University’s list of top 25 non-fiction books written since 1950.
As the assistant to Jacques d’Amboise, founder and artistic director of the National Dance Institute, Ms. Hamann produced We Real Cool, a short film based on the Gwendolyn Brooks poem, directed by Academy Award-winning director Emile Ardolino. She also coordinated an international exchange with students from America and the then Soviet Union based on literature, music, and art. She has worked in New York’s film, publishing, and entertainment industries, and is co-director of Films on the Haywall, a classic film series in Bridgehampton, New York.
Ms. Hamann lives in Manhattan and on Long Island.
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By A. Piskora
Format:Hardcover
This book is so richly detailed, layered, and precise in its vocabulary and descriptions that I found myself copying down whole paragraphs for their beauty-- the author is incredibly talented, imaginative, and skilled with language. I would love to read it again to dedicate more time and attention to it. If you want a book that you can sit and easily digest, this book is not for you. My attention wandered about halfway into it and then it was difficult to pick up the threads because there are so many minor characters and relationships. It's the sort of writing and character portrait that made me stop and think about how I sometimes think those things or are able to conceive of these ideas, but cannot articulate them. This book can; I'm reading it again for the second time.
By Shawn Wellon
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One of my pleasures in life is discovering a great book by a new talent. I was highly rewarded when I picked up Hilary Hamann's "Anthropology of an American Girl" when browsing through my local bookstore and started reading. Her introductory section really grabbed me and she never let go. "American Girl" is a highly intelligent and articulate story of a young woman's life in NY during the late 70's and early 80's. Almost every paragraph has some reflection, observation, or question buried within that deserves greater thought and reflection. It demands a lot from you, but rewards you for your effort. Highly recommended.
By clara
Format:Hardcover
Hamann's use of language and subject matter are poignantly thought-provoking and impossible to ignore. Evie could be any teenage girl any where, as she experiences all the riotous confusion of adolescence and eventually grows into womanhood with her own mind and values intact. she is a beautiful character, and it's easy to identify with her. I think everyone should buy this book, and i am anxiously awaiting Hamann's next work.
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New American Classic: Female Take on Catcher in the Rye
I LOVED THIS BOOK! Eveline Aurbach, the heroine of the Anthropology of an American Girl, is destined to reside along with Holden Caulfield as a classic literary character -- the... Read more
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Eveline Aurbach, Anthropology of an American Girl's heroine, is destined to reside alongside Holden Caulfield and become a classic literary character -- the female version of the... Read more
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A true classic for a new generation
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Published on Oct 27 2003 by Tara K. O'Hare
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Thank you, Hilary.
Anthropology of an American Girl is one of very few novels I've read in my life that got into my head and stayed there long after I'd finished it; I was filled with an incredible... Read more
Published on Oct 25 2003
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I love Jack
I just finished reading Anthropology. The charachters are amazing. I feel like I really know them all. Jack is the closest you will ever come to hanging out with Kurt Cobain.
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Anthropology of an American Girl is poignantly true to the time, the place and the culture of the East End of Long Island. Read more
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A novel, extraordinary and true.
"Anthropology of an American Girl" is truly a magnificent piece of literature. Hamann's lyricism and intuitions make for moments so moving and poignant that the self becomes ever... Read more
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