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Fiction. California Interest. Very few know the role women played in the early years of car racing. THE ARTICHOKE QUEEN tells the story of a beautiful driver and her dizzying career and relationships. It combines 1950's Americana and the thrill of racing with a groundbreaking woman's struggle for identity, love, and ultimately, redemption.
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Very few know of the important role women played in the early years of car racing. THE ARTICHOKE QUEEN tells the story of Prudence Baylor, a young and beautiful woman in the 1950's. Leaving her troubled home for San Francisco, she sinks into an underworld of jazz and lust before discovering the local amateur car racing scene. Her success there launches her into the regional spotlight as a reluctant celebrity and beauty queen, and ignites a dizzying romance.
But Prudence quickly finds her luck and skill pushed to the limit: the races riskier, the rewards higher, her romantic life becoming all too complicated, and in an infamously dangerous road race across Mexico - where she is poised for victory and international acclaim - it seems her whole life is finally about to spin out of control.
Shimmering and evocative, tender but tough, THE ARTICHOKE QUEEN is a portrait of bygone Americana, and captures a groundbreaking woman's struggle for identity, love, and ultimately, redemption.
About the Author
Owen Duffy's fiction has appeared in various journals such as Hawaii Review, Passages North, New South, Storyglossia, New Delta Review, PANK, and decomP. He holds an MFA in writing from Rutgers-Newark and currently teaches and mentors young writers. He lives with his family in Charleston, South Carolina.
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- PublisherLivingston Press (AL)
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1604891580
- ISBN 13 9781604891584
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages312
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