Nancy Lee (1)
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Om författaren
Nancy Lee is the author of The Age and Dead Girls. An assistant professor in creative writing at the University of British Columbia, she lives in Steveston, B.C., with her husband, the author John Vigna.
Verk av Nancy Lee
Associerade verk
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Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Utbildning
- University of British Columbia
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 4
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 91
- Popularitet
- #204,136
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 2
- ISBN
- 36
- Språk
- 4
This is a story about Geraldine, referred to as Gerry, an angry and fiercely troubled teenager, an adrogynous-looking girl who de-feminizes her physicality to look and act more like a boy, a kid roughened up perhaps to subconsciously toughen herself up against the pain of her upbringing—or rather in this case, her lack of one—the physical and emotional abandonment of her father.
In response, Gerry attaches herself to an older and exclusive group, one that is more than a bunch of misfits, but a group whose ideology is both dangerous and highly politicized—activists whose plans to participate in a Peace March is more than succumbing to spectatorship, but rather a direct involvement in misguided terrorism.
But, amidst the extremity of the book is a saving grace in a few of the unexpected characters, from Gerry’s grandfather, Henry, a news reporter whose divorce to his third wife plummets him into emotional and financial bankruptcy, yet a reserved kindness to a granddaughter whose life has hardened her to attachment and kindness itself.
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