- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Literature, Sisters
When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn't keep.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy Allison
- First published
- April 20, 2000
- Pages
- 446
- Publisher
- Editions 10/18, Bookcassette, Abacus
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, French, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780356215150
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