She Drove Without Stopping: A NovelShe Drove Without Stopping is the on-the-road story of brave, brainy, erotic Jane Turner. Child of the fifties, student of the sixties, her sexual identity is molded by affluent America's love affair with Freud, then set at liberty by its Sexual Revolution. Jane is the daughter of a pair of well heeled Baltimoreans whose hobbies include orchid breeding and child psychology. She was born with a strong sexual bent inherited straight from her handsome, philandering father Philip. When she was eight, Philip-on the advice of his wife's analyst-abruptly withdrew his affection from Jane. She was left dumbfounded and bereft. She Drove Without Stopping tells how Jane, at 21, strikes back, how she lights out on a cross-country search for freedom and adventure, how she settles on a life-style that's the stuff of a father's nightmare. Footloose and imprudent, Jane is a girl who will get into an old car on any excuse and drive anywhere, so long as it is far away and no one will know where she is. By the time she's come to the end of her reckless, risky year on the road, Jane's been in love, in danger, in jail, and finally, in control of her life. |
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The Bobby Pin 8 | |
My Private Life 18 | |
Attack of the FiftyFoot Woman 39 | |
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