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Item Details
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UNTIL HE COMES
A GOOD GIRL'S QUEST TO GET SOME HEAVEN ON EARTH |
| By: |
K. Dawn Goodwin |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£8.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1451627130 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781451627138 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Pub. date: |
27 December, 2011 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
"A hilarious, touching, and relatable memoir about religion, sex, and one woman's search for her own personal savior--in all its various forms. Picked on by jocks and obsessed with her own ugliness, young Dawn Goodwin fantasizes all day about having sex, but is hard-wired with fundamentalist warnings about how disappointed her Future Husband will be. Sunday school teachers, unfortunately, did not address brimming self-hatred or her compulsion to write reams of kinky stories about horny Minotaurs. The Bible had no fine print explaining how many points you lose for going to second base. And will dry humping reduce the chances of going to hell by up to 35 percent? Now, in Until He Comes, she shares her personal and sometimes raunchy journey navigating the murky waters of religion and sexuality--and the struggle to reconcile two unspoken Christian traditions: doing everything-but-sex behind closed doors and being everything-but-yourself out in the open. With the laugh-out-loud humor of such bestselling authors as Jen Lancaster and Laurie Notaro, Goodwin presents not just a tortured tightrope walk through fundamentalism but also provides a powerful reflection of the core issues facing young women: low self-esteem, depression, eating disorders, sex (and almost-sex), and hypocritical messages of perfection"-- |
| Synopsis: |
A hilarious, irreverent, and touching account of one seriously Christian girl's struggle to please any available savior. . . . K. Dawn Goodwin's holy crusade to be the Lord's sexiest spokesperson began at the tender-but far from innocent-age of seven. And while she always thought Jesus was kinda hot, even He could not quiet the avalanche of prepubescent lust and the burning wish for a man to find her, like Bathsheba, comely enough to spy on. Crucified by soulless pretty girls and cruel jocks whose mission it was to make her life hell on earth, adolescent Dawn, painfully obsessed with her own ugliness, found slivers of sweet relief in dry-humping the scrawniest guy on the wrestling team and scribbling bodice rippers starring her favorite teacher. But, Praise Jesus, at least her virginity was intact. Until college, where, thanks to a seriously sculpted Jew, Dawn's chastity crumbled like the Tower of Babylon. Her sex marathons kept her shouting, "Hallelujah!" but with her body image in apocalyptic disarray, her future husband unable to faith-heal her as promised, and the Bible threatening an extra-crispy afterlife, Dawn would have to face down her demons. Which was okay, because they were kinda hot too. . . . |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Gallery |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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