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The Collapsible World
The Collapsible World
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Written in the tautest prose, this portrait of a family on the verge of collapse shimmers with the heat and dissipated fog of October in San Francisco.
Lillie returns home one night to discover that her mother has disappeared. She is left to care for her father, a drug-addicted anesthesiologist, with little support from her only sibling, a stripper at a North Beach nightclub. Fueled by alcohol and too-little sleep, she seeks comfort in the form of sex and target practice with an attractive cop. Her one true solace is the map store where she works with Finch, the man who was always there for her when her own family wasn't.
Grappling with the loss of her mother and her vexatious relationship with her father, Lillie navigates San Francisco's seedy underworld of sex for sale, drugs, and duplicity, in search of a grown-up life that might lie at the periphery.
Author: Anne N. Marino
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780393341973
Lillie returns home one night to discover that her mother has disappeared. She is left to care for her father, a drug-addicted anesthesiologist, with little support from her only sibling, a stripper at a North Beach nightclub. Fueled by alcohol and too-little sleep, she seeks comfort in the form of sex and target practice with an attractive cop. Her one true solace is the map store where she works with Finch, the man who was always there for her when her own family wasn't.
Grappling with the loss of her mother and her vexatious relationship with her father, Lillie navigates San Francisco's seedy underworld of sex for sale, drugs, and duplicity, in search of a grown-up life that might lie at the periphery.
Author: Anne N. Marino
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780393341973
About the Author
Marino, Anne N.: - Anne N. Marino was raised in New York and lives in San Francisco. The Collapsible World was a finalist for the 1999 Heekin Group Foundation fellowship.
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