Chrissie Glazebrook (1945–2007)
Författare till The Madolescents
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- Vedertaget namn
- Glazebrook, Chrissie
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Glazebrook, Christine Ann
- Födelsedag
- 1945-03-19
- Avled
- 2007-12-07
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- England
UK - Födelseort
- Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK
- Dödsort
- Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK - Utbildning
- Northumbria University
- Yrken
- Restaurant manager
television presenter
novelist
theatre administrator
BBC Broadcaster
freelance writer (visa alla 9)
poet
journalist
short story writer - Kort biografi
- Chrissie Glazebrook was born in Lichfield, England. She was adopted as Christine Ann Wright as a baby and brought up in the industrial region of the Midlands known as the Black Country. She was educated at Cannock Grammar School and then did a secretarial course. In the late 1960s, she married Terry Glazebrook and moved to Scarborough; the couple later divorced. During this period, she held various jobs, including in a zoo and managing a vegetarian restaurant. She also worked at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.
From 1982 to 1990, she worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster and her short stories, poetry, and journalism were widely published in magazines and newspapers and broadcast on the radio. She produced Flavour of the Month, a cooking program, for Tyne Tees Television (now ITV Tyne Tees), and also was a presenter on the network.
In 1991, she became an arts administrator at Northern Arts. She was one of the founders of ProudWORDS, a gay and lesbian literature festival.
In 1998, she completed a master's degree in creative writing at Northumbria University.
Her comic debut novel, The Madolescents, was published in 2001. Blue Spark Sisters appeared in 2003. Glazebrook died at age 62 from cancer.
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 44
- Popularitet
- #346,250
- Betyg
- 2.3
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
The novel is told from the perspective of Rowena, a 16/17 year old with some issues. She lives with her mum, works in a funeral parlour and is an expert shop lifter. Mum gets a new boyfriend and Rowena struggles with this. She is sent for therapy and joins a group and she finds some soul mates with these Madolescents.
The novel is fast moving and earthy and a bit of a black romp. As well as the Madolescents, Rowena's other soul mate in her Warrior Princess life is a wild black tom cat.
The novel captures the angst of being a teenager well, the self-centred way teenagers can look at the world and the decision making that goes on in a young person's mind. It is thoughtful and interesting.… (mer)