Newfangled: A Novel
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Maidie has a missing mother, a father and two sisters with whom she has little contact, an ex-stepmother, two ex-husbands and a string of former addresses. Just as she's considering starting over once... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0684819058
ISBN13:9780684819051
Release Date:February 1998
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.10 lbs.
Dimensions:8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"
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A kaleidescope - dazzling yet it never settles
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
The story of Maidie Bonasso's life resembles a kaleidescope - the imagery is hard-edged yet dazzling, and while the pictures change smoothly, the narrative never settles into one pattern. Maidie's life is a collection of memories saved from her constant moves, which leave behind estranged parents, remote sisters and two ex-husbands. Currently working in Tuscon as the curator of the Museum of Domestic History and Home Economy (which functions better as metaphor than as museum), Maidie begins to catalog her life : abandonment--by mother ; neglect--by first husband ; verbal abuse--by second husband ; happiness--with boyfirend--current. But although Maidie thinks often about her past, it isn't until the last third of the novel that she confronts the fragments of her life and visits her family. The book is a wry and honest look at the newfangled forms of family created by geographic dislocations and divorce, by the Flannery O'Connor award winning author of "The Sources of Trouble" and "A Wild Cold State".
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