{"id":523,"date":"2012-08-01T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:14:13","slug":"best-selling-virgins-published-as-ebook","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/best-selling-virgins-published-as-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Best-selling <em>Virgins<\/em> published as ebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prof. Caryl Rivers\u2019<\/strong> best-selling novel <em>Virgins<\/em> is being republished as an ebook by Diversion Press this month. It\u2019s a funny (and feminist) story about Catholic schoolgirls coming of age in a world that has no room for women who think or question the status quo. When the book came out from Simon and Schuster in 1985, it was a best seller and sold a million copies around the world. A film option is currently in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The book has garnered rave reviews. <em>The New York Times Book Review<\/em> said, \u201cRivers demonstrates her sharp comic form right from the start.\u201d <em>The London Times Literary Supplement<\/em> called it \u201cBrilliantly comic.\u201d <em>The Chicago Tribune<\/em> said, \u201cFew other writers are as funny as she, and none funnier. Yet she is capable of wrenching your heart and soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Prof. Rivers noted in an article for the Women\u2019s Media Center, it\u2019s ironic that <em>Virgins<\/em> is being re-published just as the role of women in the church is a worldwide news story. The Vatican has told American nuns they should not be so outspoken on issues of women\u2019s reproductive rights, gay rights and other issues, and accused them of being too feminist. The nuns have rejected that characterization. They point out that it is they who are doing the work that Christ commands\u2014healing the sick and succoring the poor. Prof. Rivers notes that among her earliest role models of female strength and competence were, in fact, nuns<\/p>\n<p>The BU professor is the author of four novels and nine works of non-fiction. Her books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Troll Book club. She is a distinguished scholar in the areas of gender and media, and has been widely published in the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>, <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, and <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>. In 2008, she was awarded the Helen Thomas Lifetime achievement award from the Society of Professional journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Virgins is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Virgins-Caryl-Rivers\/dp\/0671553860\/ref=la_B001HMLREI_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1343836404&amp;sr=1-2\">amazon.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/virgins-caryl-rivers\/1001921170?ean=2940014749176\">bn.com<\/a>\u2028 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversionbooks.com\/ebooks\/virgins\">www.diversionbooks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Caryl Rivers\u2019 best-selling novel Virgins is being republished as an ebook by Diversion Press this month. It\u2019s a funny&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[58,276,315,227,277,279,280],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/523\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}