Mango Lassie: A Memoir of the Sixties - Hardcover

Dougie MacKenzie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0615522661 ISBN 13: 9780615522661

Publisher: [self] lochlomondbooks, 2011

Synopsis

They say,If you can remember the Sixties, you probably weren't there; Happily, Dougie MacKenzie recalls those zonked and zany times and brings them hilariously back to life in his regaling memoir, Mango Lassie. MacKenzie reveals himself as a pre-adolescent trapped in the; system of a Southern military school. From an abyss of despair following the death of his brother, the disaffected teen finds solace in the arms of two girls he meets in France and pursues later as a freshman at Georgetown. Avidly a lad with the ladies--and cutting an amorous swathe that Valentino would've envied, MacKenzie woos his women from the steamy streets of Pigalle to the waxed dance floors of Washington's Embassy Row. At Georgetown University, at the height of the Vietnam War, MacKenzie meets his match in the uproarious Peter Fletcher. In the thrall of his man-about-town mentor, MacKenzie is spirited through the doors of perception, and, ultimatelywith the aid of a churlish deanbooted through the doors of expulsion. Mango Lassie rollicks with wit and the follies of impassioned youth. It is a chronicle of college life that belongs on every bookshelf between Brideshead Revisited and Stover at Yale.

About this title

About the Author:

DOUGIE MACKENZIE was born in Washington, D.C. He grew up in Middleburg, Virginia and was educated at Georgetown University and the Sorbonne. A celebrated playwright,he was Pasatiempo magazine's 1988 Santa Fe Signature Artist for Writing. Dougie MacKenzie lives in Purcellville, Virginia with his loquacious Burmese cat, Simon.

Review:

Good for any number of side-splitting laughs. --Bob Quick, the New Mexican,Santa Fe

About this edition

• Publisher: [self] lochlomondbooks
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615522661
• ISBN 13: 9780615522661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Rachel Cartwright
• Illustrator: Martha Sharer