Hey, Dollface, Deborah Hautzig
Hey, Dollface, Deborah Hautzig
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Hey, Dollface

Author: Deborah Hautzig

Narrator: Tara Sands

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2012

Synopsis

Val and Chloe don’t fit in at their fancy private school in Manhattan. Together, they ditch school, visit cemeteries and thrift shops and have sleepovers during which they confide all their secret thoughts. Lately, Val has all kinds of questions. Especially about sex. So Val turns to the two people who have always given her the most honest answers possible: her mother and Chloe. Unfortunately, not even Val’s mother—an adult!—has all the answers. Val starts to think that maybe she’s not “normal” at all. Because she has some other feelings for Chloe. Feelings that she never expected to have. Would Chloe think those feelings were wrong? And her biggest question of all: How do you separate loving someone as a friend and the other kind of love—or do they cross over sometimes?Acclaimed author Deborah Hautzig’s 1978 novel is an unforgettable exploration of friendship and love—and all the invisible lines that come with them.

About Deborah Hautzig

Deborah Hautzig was born in New York City and grew up on the Upper West Side. She graduated from the Chapin School and published Hey, Dollface, her first novel, in 1978 while still a student at Sarah Lawrence College. Her second novel, Second Star to the Right, was a National Book Award finalist in 1982 and is still in paperback. She is the author of dozens of children’s books, including nine books about Little Witch, a character she created and which made its debut in 1984; eighteen highly regarded retellings of classic fairy tales and stories; thirty-three Sesame Street books, as well as many other well-known titles. She has also written book reviews for The New York Times and contributed to poetry collections. She lives in New York City with her husband and their daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elisabeth

My mum brought me this home from the library, withdrawn. I don't think she knew what it was about. It's about two girls who are friends but sometimes get a little intimate with each other, basic are we gay, maybe we're not, maybe we're just teenage girls. I was really obsessed with this book and rea......more

Goodreads review by John

Ienjoyed this coming of age book on two 15 year old best friends living in NYC and going to the same private girls school that neither of them like or particularly fit in. As I was reading this well written story, I could not place the period it was written in or for, only now seeing that it was ind......more

Goodreads review by PinkAmy loves books, cats and naps

Grade: C+ (as historical fiction or a period piece) In 1978, sophomores Val and Chloe are new to their private school. Val questions whether the friendship might be something more, in a time when homosexuality was thought to be abnormal. HEY, DOLLFACE should be viewed as a period piece, because the a......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz)

Val starts attending a new school. She is lonely until she meets and befriends a fellow artist, Chloe. Soon the two are inseparable. Val becomes confused about their relationship. Are they too close? This is the first book I've ever read about the confusion teens face when they feel attracted to a pe......more

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