[nice tight copy, faint soiling/shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket clean and attractive, with one unobtrusive closed tear at top rear corner (at foldover)]. Comic novel of a Texas sorority house, "a woman's hilarious answer to Animal House" -- Secrets of the Yee-Haw Sisterhood, perhaps? -- based on the author's own undergraduate experiences at UT-Austin. Her second book (and first hardcover) to be published under her own name; for a time, she also had a parallel career as a romance novelist under the pseudonym "Tory Cates." (Her subsequent work has included several novels, one of which, "The Boyfriend School," she also screenplayed under the title DON'T TELL HER IT'S ME.) [This book is featured in ReadInk's Catalog #2, "Skirts, in Jackets"; ask for it by name or number.]
Title: Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0393023230
ISBN-13: 9780393023237
Illustrator: Illustrated by (dj) Vivienne Flesher
Location Published: New York, W. W. Norton & Co.: (c.1986)
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Categories: Fiction: Modern Lit, Fiction: Modern Literature
Seller ID: 10013
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