From the glittering skyscrapers of Manhattan's media elite to the slacker haven of a fashionably low-rent LA bar, Strawberry Saroyan traces her journey not only from girl- to womanhood, but from fantasy to reality. A powerful and profoundly post-modern coming of age story, with a voice reminiscent of Liz Phair one moment and Mary McCarthy the next, "Girl Walks into a Bar" explores Saroyan's struggle not only with who she is and who she wants to be, but also who she is in the context of what she's supposed to embody: the iconic media-promulgated "girl", a 21st-century version of Audrey Hepburn standing outside Tiffany's looking at diamonds. "Girl Walks into a Bar" takes a handful of the most striking and formative episodes of Saroyan's life and brings them to the page as a filmmaker might, zeroing in on the crucial "scenes": losing her virginity, starting her own girly magazine, falling in dysfunctional love. Yet all the while, she's trailed by that other black-clad girl, the Platonic ideal of so many modern young women's fantasies. Will they ever meet? That question lies at the heart of Saroyan's genre-bending memoir.
- ISBN10 037550611X
- ISBN13 9780375506116
- Publish Date 8 July 2003 (first published 2 June 2003)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 25 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Random House (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English