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Three sisters and their alcoholic father find their lives changed after the unexpected death of the girls' mother.
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The three Field sisters live in the sanitized suburbs of the fifties and sixties, but their plastic world is askew. They are growing up crazy in a very eccentric, often miserable, sometimes hilarious family. Their home is a war zone ruled by an abusive father - a philandering used-car salesman hooked on booze, guns and discipline. And whenever their mother's coffee mug is empty they hurry to refill it with whiskey, for they know she's living precariously in the wake of the strange unspeakable act she once committed against the family.
These falling angels - tough-talking Lou; sensible, sentimental Norma; chic, naïve Sandy - go through rites of passage each in her own way. They turn to drugs, swinging sixties sex, schmaltzy fantasy - and, repeatedly, to one another. And, even after her death, they turn to their mother, and to the bizarre love they discover their father bore her, a love he must commemorate at Niagara Falls--
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"A stunning story of three sisters growing up in the sixties--Gowdy's style and choice of topic is reminiscent of Anne Tyler's." -Edmonton Journal
"A coming-of-age story set in the sixties--Gowdy sets the suburban dream on its edge and flips it back and forth, revealing first its dark and then ludicrous sides." -The Globe and Mail
"Falling Angels heralds the presence of a talent that will make a major impact on what's left of the millennium." -The Toronto Star
"Brilliantly celebrates the bonding that occurs even in dysfunctional families--Scrupulously and evocatively wrought." -Publishers Weekly
"Beautiful and life-affirming." -Quill & Quire
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- PublisherSoho Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1569471169
- ISBN 13 9781569471166
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages199
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