num_pages: 212
description: Maiden burst upon the literary scene, published to sensational reviews. Critics celebrated it as a "brilliant comic satire" and novelist Cynthia Buchanan as a superb storyteller, "a powerful voice" whose prose style is stunning. "Maiden charts the riotous adventures of a thirty-year-old retro-virgin in rhinestones as she battles the flesh markets of Southern California in 1970. A female Don Quixote, this brave and eccentric heroine plunges forth on a mythic quest for her Dream Man of chivalry. "Maiden is a classic of American literature.Cynthia Buchanan's "Maiden," which first appeared in 1972, remains one of the most highly reviewed first novels in publishing history. An original commentary on the deadly life of the American dream.
language: English
title: Maiden
titlecomplete: Maiden
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Quill