{"product_id":"9780996421850","title":"Girls Gone Old","description":"2016 was a pivotal year for Fiona Helmsley, and on the eve of her 40th birthday, an old friend questioned the subject matter of her writing: why, so often, did Fiona reflect back on the questionable choices she made when she younger—wasn't 40 a good age to “grow up” and move on to more mature subject matter? \u003cp\u003eA few months after her friend's question, a much more monumental, catastrophic event occurred: professional ignoramus Donald J. Trump was elected president; the ‘80s, the decade Fiona had grown up in, had ascended to the Oval Office, big time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Girls Gone Old Fiona Helmsley doesn't answer her friend’s question so much as she subverts it. With new essays about the confluence of ‘80s television, art, and sexual fantasy; addiction and illness; school shootings and serial killers; family; Andy Warhol; and the sleazy (yet sexy) misogyny of Axl Rose, Girls Gone Old rebukes the notion of the self as a lesser muse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"We Heard You Like Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017839821040,"sku":"9780996421850","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780996421850_p0.jpg?v=1763900262","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996421850","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}