My Turquoise Years (ePub)
A Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant heard exotic stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led aboard cruise ships and in Australia. Nancy's world of furs, jewels, cigarette holders, and handsome men seemed miles away from the west-coast...
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Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant heard exotic stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led aboard cruise ships and in Australia. Nancy's world of furs, jewels, cigarette holders, and handsome men seemed miles away from the west-coast hamlet of Cordova Bay, where Marion lived with her aunt and uncle, running wild on the beach with her friends and enjoying weekend visits with her devoted father. But things changed the year she entered her teens. First, a package from Nancy arrived in the mail-a gift of sexy lingerie. Next, Nancy threw everyone into a tizzy with the surprise announcement that she was coming for a visit.
In this memoir of her fourteenth summer, Marion Farrant captures a lost time and place with hilarity and affection. The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the heyday of the nuclear family; the time of the Three Stooges, the Red Menace, and Whipper Billy Watson; the apex of plastic, arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal pushers, refrigerators, cars, and even, at Easter, the fur of live rabbits. Witty, tender, and wry, My Turquoise Years is a book for anyone who remembers being a teenager.
In this memoir of her fourteenth summer, Marion Farrant captures a lost time and place with hilarity and affection. The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the heyday of the nuclear family; the time of the Three Stooges, the Red Menace, and Whipper Billy Watson; the apex of plastic, arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal pushers, refrigerators, cars, and even, at Easter, the fur of live rabbits. Witty, tender, and wry, My Turquoise Years is a book for anyone who remembers being a teenager.
Autoren-Porträt von M. A. C. Farrant
M.A.C. Farrant was born in Sydney, Australia, and raised in Cordova Bay on Vancouver Island. She attended Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria. She is a former social worker and tap dancer and the author of seven critically acclaimed books: Girls around the House (Polestar, 1999), What's True, Darling (Polestar, 1997), Word of Mouth (Thistledown, 1996), Altered Statements (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995), Raw Material (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1993) and Sick Pigeon (Thistledown, 1991). She was the winner of the Van City Book Prize for her short story collection Raw Material, and her work has also been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. 
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: M. A. C. Farrant
- 2004, 160 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Greystone Books
- ISBN-10: 1926812190
- ISBN-13: 9781926812199
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2004
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