Stop That Girl Explained

Stop That Girl
Author:	Elizabeth McKenzie
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Fiction
Published:	2005 (Random House)
Media Type:	Print (Paperback)
Pages:	207
Isbn:	9781400062249
Oclc:	55596349

Stop That Girl: A Novel in Short Stories is a 2005 novel by Elizabeth McKenzie. It is a series of nine short stories telling the life of Ann Ransom, the narrator, from when she is an eight-year-old girl through to her failed marriage.

Reception

The New York Times in its review of Stop That Girl described McKenzie as "an accomplished humorist and a developed stylist, and she wastes no time dazzling the reader with her clean direct language, her simple but searing use of metaphor and her unflinching eye." and although finding the writing of the last two stories "cumbersome, overwrought and overdetermined" concluded that "McKenzie still feels like an original."^[1]

Stop That Girl has also been reviewed by January Magazine,^[2] Kirkus Reviews,^[3] Publishers Weekly.^[4] Booklist, Library Journal,^[5] and the School Library Journal.^[6]

Notes and References

1. News: Pam Houston . March 13, 2005 . Sunday Book Review  - 'Stop That Girl': Women on the Verge . New York Times . January 6, 2018.
2. Web site: Literary Siesta . Edward Champion . March 2005 . januarymagazine.com . January Magazine . January 6, 2018.
3. Web site: Stop That Girl: A Novel in Short Stories . November 15, 2004 . Kirkus Reviews . Kirkus Media LLC . January 6, 2018.
4. Web site: Stop That Girl . November 1, 2004 . Publishers Weekly . PWxyz LLC. January 6, 2018.
5. Web site: Stop that girl : a novel in stories / Elizabeth McKenzie. . catalog.wccls.org . January 6, 2018.
6. Book: Stop That Girl: A Novel in Stories / Elizabeth McKenzie . smcl.bibliocommons.com . 9781400062249 . January 6, 2018 . McKenzie . Elizabeth . 2005 .