Stop That Girl

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.

Stop That Girl
AuthorElizabeth McKenzie
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
Published2005 (Random House)
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages207
ISBN9781400062249
OCLC55596349

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,[5] Library Journal,[5] and the School Library Journal.[6]

References
  1. Pam Houston (March 13, 2005). "Sunday Book Review – 'Stop That Girl': Women on the Verge". New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  2. Edward Champion (March 2005). "Literary Siesta". januarymagazine.com. January Magazine. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  3. "Stop That Girl: A Novel in Short Stories". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. November 15, 2004. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  4. "Stop That Girl". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. November 1, 2004. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  5. "Stop that girl : a novel in stories / Elizabeth McKenzie". catalog.wccls.org. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
  6. McKenzie, Elizabeth (2005). Stop That Girl: A Novel in Stories / Elizabeth McKenzie. ISBN 9781400062249. Retrieved January 6, 2018. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)


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