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In this award-winning book, Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. But when the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the threads of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and sang to her children, until suddenly one day in 1959, she was taken away to a sanatorium.What had gone wrong in a family that everyone described as happy? What pulled Poppy through the years of shock treatment and despair? These are some of the questions the daughter must ask before she can make peace with her own past.
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Poppy
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MacMillan, Sydney, Australia, 1990
ISBN 10: 0732908876
ISBN 13: 9780732908874
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Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Some light rubbing to edges and tips of boards, otherwise very good. Unclipped dust jacket has a sticker on rear and some very light sun fading to front, otherwise clean. Some glue discoloration to rear endpapers near gutter. Binding tight and text clean. Seller Inventory # 4433799
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Poppy
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Macmillan, Sydney, Australia, 1997
ISBN 10: 0732908876
ISBN 13: 9780732908874
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Seller: funyettabooks, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean and tight and square with fairly sharp corners. The lower front corner has wear. First printing of this edition. 447 pages. Darker red boards with white lettering on the spine. Color loss along the edges of the boards. The dust jacket has a little shelfwear and is in new mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Biography, Memoir. Seller Inventory # 053464
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Macmillan / Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 1997
ISBN 10: 0732908876
ISBN 13: 9780732908874
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Seller: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australia
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New ed. Hardback small thick, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear. 320 pp. Award-winning novel by Australian writer Drusilla Modjeska about her mother (part biography, part fiction, that is, 'faction'). A fictional account of a family encounter with mental illness. Drusilla tells the story of her mother's life - the story of Poppy, born in 1924, died in 1984, using part evidence, part imagination. The sad but revealing story of Poppy, told in episodes, a young mother who is forced to spend years in a sanatorium against her will. Seller Inventory # 16963
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