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My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to—quote—sit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unquote Glicksberg! I don't know what kind of things he writes but I found my inspiration in Malibu with a radio, my best girlfriends, and absolutely zillions of boys for miles. I absolutely had to write everything down because I heard that when you get older you forget things, and I'd be the most miserable woman in the world if I forgot all about Moondoggie and what happened this summer. I absolutely owe the world my story. (And every word is true. I swear.)
This is Franzie, part Holden Caulfield, part Lolita. The guys call her Gidget—short for girl midget—and she's a girl coming of age in the summer of 1957. Based on the experiences of his own daughter, Frederick Kohner's trend-setting novel became an international sensation and turned its irrepressible heroine into an American pop culture icon whose voice still echoes every thrill, every fear, and every hope that every teenager ever had about growing up.
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Perion Mccrary
reviewed Gidget on June 10, 2014
Gidget
So, this was fascinating. I grew up watching reruns of the Gidget TV show, starring Sally Field as the bubbly surfer girl. I also loved the movies, and the Frankie and Annette movies about surfing and beach parties. What I didn't realize was that it was a book that started it all (this book, obviously) and that the book was based on a real life girl!
Frederick Kühner was a Hollywood screenwriter whose daughter Kathy became obsessed with surfing at the age of fifteen. She started hanging out all day at the beach in Malibu, before Malibu became THE beach to hang at, goofing around and surfing with a bunch of beach bums who had names like The Kahoona, Moondoggie, and Lord Gallo. At five foot nothing, Kathy was soon dubbed The Gidget, short for Girl Midget, and was the first girl to be one of the crew. With her permission, her father wrote down conversations that she had with her friends, interviewed them all, and had her tell him in detail what it was like: to surf, to meet these guys, to live on the beach with no ambitious but to catch some bitchen waves.
Although light on story, I think Kohner captures something unique: a new movement, a new language, a new lifestyle, before it became a fad. Before Frankie and Annette were singing on the shore about young love, there was Kathy, the Gidget, hanging on the beach with Moondoggie, getting sideways looks from adults and running from the cops who wanted to shut them down.
This edition was also great, featuring an intro by Kathy, and with photographs throughout.
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