Not That Kind Of Girl Lena Dunham Joana Avillez by Lena Dunham, Joana Avillez 9780008101268, 0008101264, B00IAEVJEO instant download after payment.

In Not That Kind Of Girl, Lena Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one’s way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one that deserves to be told. 

“Take My Virginity (No Really, Take It)” is the account of Dunham’s first time, and how her expectations of sex didn’t quite live up to the actual event (“No floodgate had been opened, no vault of true womanhood unlocked”); “Girls & Jerks” explores her former attraction to less-than-nice guys — guys who had perfected the “dynamic of disrespect” she found so intriguing; “Is This Even Real?” is a meditation on her lifelong obsession with death and dying — what she calls her “genetically predestined morbidity.”And in “I Didn’t F*** Them, but They Yelled at Me,” she imagines the tell-all she will write when she is eighty and past caring, able to reflect honestly on the sexism and condescension she has encountered in Hollywood, where women are “treated like the paper thingies that protect glasses in hotel bathrooms—necessary but infinitely disposable.” 

Exuberant, moving, and keenly observed, Not That Kind Of Girl is a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle that is growing up, establishing Lena Dunham as more than a hugely talented director, actress and producer - but also as a fresh and vibrant new literary voice.