Tiger, Tiger A Memoir

Name: Tiger, Tiger A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781250002426

ISBN-10: 1250002427

ISBN-13: 9781250002426

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Authors: Margaux Fragoso

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One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is fifty-one. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child's paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.In time, he insidiously takes on the role of Margaux's playmate, father, and lover. Charming and manipulative, Peter burrows into every aspect of Margaux's life and transforms her from a…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 1/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue






"Can i play with you?"



The two-storyhouse



A bad habit



Savages



Higher, Higher



"Eight is the Most Beautiful Age for a girl"



Karen, Mysister, Mysister



"Only if you want to"



"It's not wrong to love you"



"There's something very wrong with that man"



Circle, Circle, Dot, Dot



The flowering nightgown



Our little secret






The reunion



The dowry



Cathy and paul



Rescue me



Nina



The falls



"The devil made me do it"



Prettybabies



Tying the knot



The confessional



Stranger in the mirror



The dropout



The woman in the tree



The contract



"The tiger's spring"






Rivals



The loan



The inheritance


Afterword


Acknowledgments