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Paperback My Turquoise Years: A Memoir Book

ISBN: 1553650379

ISBN13: 9781553650379

My Turquoise Years: A Memoir

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.

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A very good memoir..

I really enjoyed reading this memoir. It was written in the style where you felt you were with the author as she remembers her life. It wasn't a very long memoir but it covered a lot time in her life. It reminded me of the book "Too close to the falls" another memoir that is really worth reading. I know I will look for this author's other books, because I really like her writing style.
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