Carousel of Progress

Name: Carousel of Progress
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ISBN: 9780812992540

ISBN-10: 0812992547

ISBN-13: 9780812992540

Edition: N/A

Authors: Katherine Tanney

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Meet Meredith Herman, a fourteen-year-old expert witness to the slow unraveling of her parents' marriage amid the lunacy of Los Angeles, 1978, a world of bell-bottoms, grapefruit diets, and plastic surgery. Meredith is a girl of a specific time and place tackling the universal challenges of boys, school, and parents. Her mother, Leigh, is a housewife suffering an excruciating and often hilarious midlife discontent, a malaise that leaves Meredith's father, Robert, genuinely baffled. As Leigh attempts to reinvent herself as a liberated lady - complete with assertiveness-training classes and a dalliance with an exotic artist - Robert runs for cover into a hasty second marriage. Through it all,…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Katherine Tanney was raised in Los Angeles & attended the California Institute of the Arts, where she received her BFA. She was a nationally exhibited video artist & worked in the film industry before getting her MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. Tanney has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony, a "Story" Magazine Award finalist, & the recipient of various awards & grants for her work. She lives in Austin, Texas.