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Laurie Fox - My Sister from the Black Lagoon, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

My Sister from the Black Lagoon

A Novel of My Life

Av Laurie Fox

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"I was born into a mentally ill family. My sister was the officially crazy one, but really we were all nuts." So begins MY SISTER FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, Laurie Fox's incandescent novel of growing up in a strange, unfathomable world. Lorna Persons is the youngest of two daughters born in the 1950s to a South California family. She lives in the shadow cast by her sister, whose rages command the full attention of a her parents. Their household is off-key and out of kilter, a place where Lorna's sister Lonnie sees evil in the morning toast and runs into the hills to join the animals that seem more like her kin. Lorna's severe longing for normality, combined with a sensitive nature and teenage-angst, lead her down a bittersweet path from anger and guilt to acceptance. MY SISTER FROM THE BLACK LAGOON is a wisecracked bell jar, a heartbreaking study of sane and crazy. Laurie Fox's delightful voice is knowing yet wide-eyed, lyrical and witty.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2000-06-19
  • Mått: 127 x 203 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 306 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: Simon & Schuster
  • ISBN: 9780684855387
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Laurie Fox is the author of the autobiographical novel, My Sister from the Black Lagoon, The Lost Girls, and the interactive poetry book, Sexy Hieroglyphics. She has also published two chapbooks, Sweeping Beauty and I Love Walt, and her poetry has been included in several literary journals. A graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz, Laurie has written and performed in dozens of plays and performance artworks. A former bookseller of both new and antiquarian books, Laurie was also a long-time creative writing teacher and works in publishing. A native of Los Angeles, Laurie resides in Berkeley, CA, where she lived in author Philip K. Dick’s teenage home for seventeen years and still dreams of electric sheep!

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Valerie Frankel The New York Times Book Review Fox's prose is beautiful...effective and stirring.

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