Our Town
β Scribed by McEnroe, Kevin Jack
- Book ID
- 109173832
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781619026384
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β¦ Synopsis
Our Town is the debut of a striking literary voice, one that captures the disillusion at the fringes of Hollywood as seen through a haze of drugs, alcohol, abuse, and fallen aspirations. An unseen narrator guides us through the dark fairy tale of Dorothy White, an aspiring actress who βnever quite figured how to get out of her own way." Her perfect marriage to an equally golden actor, Dale, quickly turns into one of jealousy and violence. Dorothy ends the marriage yet begins a legacy of self-destruction for the failed couple, as well as their two children, Clover and Dylan. But we see the pathos in Dorothy's attempts to get back on track, to be a good woman, mother, and grandmother. Throughout the novel, she is left in the wake of decisions that turn disastrous. Her downward spiral from elusive fame into consistent infamyβa series of DUIs, the continuing neglect of her children, a string of failed and unhealthy relationshipsβis not without its grace,...
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_Our Town_ is the debut of a striking literary voice, one that captures the disillusion at the fringes of Hollywood as seen through a haze of drugs, alcohol, abuse, and fallen aspirations. An unseen narrator guides us through the dark fairy tale of Dorothy White, an aspiring actress who "never quite