ISBN: 9780312333942

Patty Dann guides us through the guerilla between mother and daughter, through the minefields that lie between being a child and being an in a voice not like any weve heard before. - John… Meer...

Patty Dann guides us through the guerilla between mother and daughter, through the minefields that lie between being a child and being an in a voice not like any weve heard before. - John SaylesPure gold.energetic.frisky.a pleasure! Product DescriptA coming-of-age novel that spawned the cult classic movie of the same name, starring Cher and Winona Ryder.ReviewThis is a really funny book about people trying to find something to hang onto in a world that keeps shifting under their feet. Patty Dann guides us through the guerilla between mother and daughter, through the minefields that lie between being a child and being an in a voice not like any weve heard before.- John SaylesPure gold...energetic...frisky...a pleasure!-Kirkus ReviewsAntic and poignant slice-of-coming-of-age-novel...a quirky charm will delight readers!-ALA BooklistCharming, fresh...sharply etched.-Publishers WeeklyAbout the Author Patty Dann is the author of THE GOLDFISH WENT ON VACAT: A MEMOIR OF LOSS and THE BABY BOAT: A MEMOIR OF ADOPT. She has also published two novels, SWEET & CRAZY and MERMAIDS. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. MERMAIDS was made into a movie, starring Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci. ? ?Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Christian Science Monitor, O Magazine, The Oregon Quarterly, Redbook, More, Forbes Woman, The Writers Handbook, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Dirt: An Anthology About Keeping House, and This I Believe: On Motherhood. ? ? She has served as a judge for the Scholastic Young Writers Ads. She has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Oregon. Dann has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the West Side YMCA. She was cited by New York Magazine as one of the Greatchers of NYC. Excerpt. ? Reprinted by permiss. All rights reserved.CHAPTER 1Mrs. Flax was happiest when she was leaving a place, but I wanted to stay put long enough to fall down crazy and hear the Word of God. I always called my mother Mrs. Flax. She had driven my little sister Kate and me in the blue Buick stat wagon for three days this time, racing from Oklahoma to New England. Skinny Burt LeForest, who had a bulging Adams apple and was in my high school, tore behind us in a truck full of our furniture, driving wildly to keep up. I had seen Mrs. Flax kiss Burt by the stove a week before, when he came by to change a light bulb we couldnt reach.We arrived in Grove on a round moon night, with lilacs blowing sweet against our new house in the breeze. We rented the place; we always rented. I lay in the back seat, holding Kate, with her curly red hair, on top of me as I stared up at the windshield, which was still covered with Oklahoma dust. Mrs. Flax turned off the motor. I shut my eyes and prayed this would be the town where I heard a voice. Joan of Arc heard voices at thirteen; I had just turned fourteen, but I hadnt given up hope.But Charlotte, Mrs. Flax said when she found me at age six, kneeling in the middle of the kitchen on a hot Arizona afternoon, Charlotte, youre ish. Mrs. Flax didnt believe in ritual or tradit. Relig weighs me down, she said. I, however, decided I wanted to repent the first time I saw a girl with ashes on her forehead cross herself and chant Hail Marys before a spelling bee. That was when we lived in Wisconsin; the next day I stole an old piece of charcoal from a neighbor mans barbecue and walked around with a smudge between my eyebrows for a week and a half.I was eight years old when Mrs. Flax was pregnant with Kate. While she drove with her belly pressed up against the steering wheel, I knelt way in the back of the stat wagon. I solemnly clipped two curls of my hair and placed them in the jacks box where I saved my baby teeth. I prayed these relics would be kissed by miles of crusaders, who would wait piously in line someday.I always had trouble trying to be holy, though. First of all, I liked to lie a lot; second of all, I kept falling in love.Mrs. Flax cli, Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Bestes Angebot, [LT: BestOffer], Edition Description: Reprint, Binding: Paperback, Publication Date: 03-11-2004, Sprache: English, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Inches: 0.63X8.11X5.43, ISBN-10: 0312333943, ISBN-13: 9780312333942, SKU: SONG0312333943, Buchtitel: Mermaids, EAN: 9780312333942, St. Martins Griffin<