Silly Little Rich Girl [Paperback]

Jimmy Gleacher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2009

Liza Davis is looking for something. Looking for hope, for meaning. For her sister, or her best friend. Maybe she's even looking for herself. In Silly Little Rich Girl, Jimmy Gleacher introduces a fascinating and contradictory heroine. Privileged, famous, beautiful...Liza seems destined for a successful career on Wall Street until a series of events loosens her grip on reality and sends her on a cross-country quest. From New York to Florida to Seattle, she visits the fringes of the underworld, gets an hour's worth of fifteen minutes of fame, falls in love for the first time, and believes her obsession with finding her sibling is sisterly love. Liza's journey is a classic road trip with a postmodern spin. Through Liza, Gleacher takes on American popular culture, from the sacred to the profane. Reality television, politicians, and evangelical Christians are just a few of Gleacher's targets in this incisive sophomore novel.

Editorial Reviews

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Gleacher doesn't get the attention he deserves. He's a smart, funny writer with a fresh narrative voice. "Silly Little Rich Girl" is a quirky, heartfelt story, an adventurous newfangled tour of America's pop culture, microcelebrity, and mental illness. --James Frey, author of "A Million Little Pieces"

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A refreshing and creative novel that can be read in one sitting. Jimmy Gleacher has delivered an original piece of writing. He will make you laugh, too.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Casperian Books LLC (April 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934081175
• ISBN-13: 978-1934081174
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,701,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jimmy Gleacher is the author of the three novels, Paradise Rules (Gallery Books 2011,) Silly Little Rich Girl (Casperian Books 2009,) and It's How You Play the Game (Scribner 2003.) He is also the screenwriter of the film HE'S SUCH A GIRL (Lionsgate UK, 2010.) He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a unique look at the life of a bi-polar female, May 1, 2009

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Debra Gaynor "ReviewYourBook.com" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silly Little Rich Girl (Paperback)

Jimmy Gleacher offers readers a unique look at the life of a bi-polar female. Liza Davis was from an extremely dysfunctional home. Her mother's focus was on her professional life rather than her children. Daughter Jamie informed her mother of her plans to go to Africa with the Peace Corps. Her mother threw a temper tantrum. Jamie walked out never to return. After a month or more, Liza became very upset. She set out on a search to find Jamie. The reader follows her on the journey and witnesses her break down.
The plot of Silly Little Rich Girl has potential but needs a tad of work in the area of editing . There are several typographical errors. The plot is confusing. Gleacher weaves the story in and out. One chapter will take place along Liza's journey to find Jamie. The next chapter takes place in the hospital. I found the plot confusing and erratic; however, that was when I got it. Gleacher is demonstrating how the mind of a bi-polar works. A bi-polar mind rarely has a smooth flow. Bits and pieces of thoughts are invading the brain all at once. Before the person can grab on and focus on one thought, another bombards him or her. Where my first thought was that Gleacher lost focus on the plot, I now think he is brilliant. Few authors have ever been able to capture the erratic thinking of a bi-polar.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars refreshing brisk family drama, April 11, 2009

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silly Little Rich Girl (Paperback)

As she lies in the hospital Liza Davis reflects amusingly on the New York Post headlines that dubbed her and Lily Durfee as SILLY LITTLE RICH GIRLS doing an inane stunt to get attention. Liza muses that the media as always does what it does best rush to judgment without supporting facts.

Her hospitalization can be traced initially to when her older sister Jamie vanished after their business oriented mom ripped her for joining the Peace Corps instead of getting a real job. Missing her sibling, Liza, a student at Dartmouth, began writing letters to herself signed by her sister. Her mom pressures Liza to work on Wall St when she graduates when she wants to do is design clothing; which reminds her of her vanished sister. However, her quest to find her sibling, who reportedly never showed up in Africa, becomes her obsessed mission; reality is not an issue nor is danger as she travels the country in her pursuit.

This is a refreshing brisk family drama starring an intriguing college age student and her affluent anti-soccer Type A mom. Through their dysfunctional relationship the audience obtains a picture of Jamie and their younger brother Jack. The story line is fast-paced from the moment Jamie disappears and never slows down as Lily lands in one troubled situation after another culminating in the media flip flops re an abduction and hospitalization. SILLY LITTLE RICH GIRL is a philosophical intense yet often humorous character study of a family of four with one kitchen chair currently empty though the table is set to include her.

Harriet Klausner

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius, April 1, 2009

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Miles August "Miles August" (Roosevelt, LI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silly Little Rich Girl (Paperback)

It's only April but this is the best book I've read so far for 2009. It's original, funny, edgy, and smart. Loved it.