Article: A MISFIT'S MUSICAL MEMOIR.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)

Byline: Gil Asakawa

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If Donna Gaines' memoir, A Misfit's Manifesto, were expressed as music, it would be the kind of song she loves: rock 'n' roll that's edgy and smart and fast and rollicking along with the rhythm of the street, fueled by the rebel attitude that's been at the core of rock since her childhood in the 1950s.

Gaines is a bundle of contradictions - a glue-sniffing, pill-popping teenager who now is ``Dr. Gaines'' and lectures the world over on adolescent violence and angst; a feminist who is a card-carrying member of the NRA and porn connoisseur; a Jewish girl who crossed the lines early and fell for Irish boys; a ...

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