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A hilariously candid story of a dysfunctional and disintegrating relationship, What Rhymes with Bastard? follows Linda Robertson as she moves from London to San Francisco, where she gets cheated on, gets dumped, loses her job, and forms a cabaret band.
Linda’s story begins in London. When her beloved Jack gets locked up in a mental hospital after trying to sail down the Thames in a makeshift raft, Linda doesn’t take the hint. Instead, she marries him and moves to San Francisco, where she plans to Get Ahead.
Alas, her blue-skied visions didn’t include unemployment, oddball roommates, arguments, or Jack's desperate attempt to sleep with as many women as he can get his hands on. As her romance sours, our heroine pours her bile into song, assembles a cabaret band, and takes to the dark, sticky stages of the city's nightclubs. There, amid a morass of strippers, magicians, artists and assorted weirdoes, she strives for the ultimate musical accolade: Ms Accordion San Francisco 2004.
Linda’s story begins in London. When her beloved Jack gets locked up in a mental hospital after trying to sail down the Thames in a makeshift raft, Linda doesn’t take the hint. Instead, she marries him and moves to San Francisco, where she plans to Get Ahead.
Alas, her blue-skied visions didn’t include unemployment, oddball roommates, arguments, or Jack's desperate attempt to sleep with as many women as he can get his hands on. As her romance sours, our heroine pours her bile into song, assembles a cabaret band, and takes to the dark, sticky stages of the city's nightclubs. There, amid a morass of strippers, magicians, artists and assorted weirdoes, she strives for the ultimate musical accolade: Ms Accordion San Francisco 2004.
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Shy, retiring Linda Robertson is technically Scottish, but spent twenty-three years honing her English accent before moving to the US. She likes to be prepared. After many years pootling on the violin, she started squeezing a small, golden accordion and hasn't looked back since. She was 2004's Accordion Queen of San Francisco. This is her first book.
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In this darkly comedic debut memoir, Scottish ex-pat Robertson details a bad year in San Francisco, living with a no-good boyfriend and her own uncertain identity. Wryly observing that "even a boyfriend in a lunatic asylum seemed better than none," twenty-something Linda sends young, psychologically delicate Jack, "a good fixer-upper," ahead to SF to secure a job, a place to live, and a "perfect backdrop to our decaying love." The painful details of their relationship follow, as Jack becomes the alcoholic, drug abusing, philandering bastard of the title, and Robertson copes through friends, music and gallows humor. Though there's little on the ex-pat experience (or the whys of her and her friends' knack for poor choices), Robertson shares some welcome insights ("when your lover doesn't love you anymore, friends remind you that they do") and gamely pokes fun at their grim, collective situation. The most serious material follows the death of Robertson's mother, after which Robertson makes a bid for adulthood by entering the Ms. Accordion San Francisco 2004 pageant. Though sure to delight open-minded fans of chick lit (Robertson isn't bashful), it's a narrative unlikely to catch on with any broader an audience.
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- PublisherMacAdam/Cage
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1596923016
- ISBN 13 9781596923010
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages250
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