Several critics, including the New Yorker's, have compared the book to The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger, 1951), a much shorter coming-of-age novel which mixes satire with seriousness and blasphemy. But Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye, was a much more substantial and visible character in his own right than the amorphous Ginny. Holden rebelled against conformity while Ginny conforms to her surroundings of the moment.
A more likely comparison is to Erica Jong's best-selling comic sexual odyssey, Fear of Flying.....
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