| Edition |
First Gallery Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
295 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
By the time Wendy Lawless turned seventeen, she'd known for quite some time that she didn't have a normal mother. But that didn't stop her from wanting one. . . . Georgann Rea didn't bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill plugged into her cigarette holder. She went through men like Kleenex, and didn't like dogs or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match. In "a searing memoir that reads like a novel" (Anne Korkeakivi, An Unexpected Guest), Wendy Lawless deftly charts the highs and lows of growing up with her younger sister in the shadow of an unstable, fabulously neglectful mother. Georgann, a real-life Holly Golightly who constantly reinvents herself as she trades up from trailer park to penthouse, suffers multiple nervous breakdowns and suicide attempts, while Wendy tries to hide the cracks in their fractured family from the rest of the world. |
| Subject |
Lawless, Wendy.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781451675368 hardback $25.00 |
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1451675364 hardback $25.00 |
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9781451675382 (ebk.) |
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1451675380 (ebk.) |
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