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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781721344369
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ISBN: 9781721344369
Runtime: | 4.11 Hours |
Category: | Fiction |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
“Mrs. Flax was happiest when she was leaving a place, but I wanted to stay put long enough to fall down crazy and hear the Word of God. I always called my mother Mrs. Flax.”
So begins this extraordinary first novel about one wild year in the life of 14-year-old Charlotte Flax, when she and her sister Kate move with Mrs. Flax into a sleepy 1960’s Massachusetts town. Mrs. Flax is a woman who wears polka-dot dresses and serves hors d’oeuvres for dinner every night, and Kate is a child who basically wants to be a fish.
And then there’s Charlotte, who in Patty Dann’s hands, is transformed into a young woman of infinite whim and variety. Charlotte’s main ambition in life is to become a saint, preferably martyred, though she’s Jewish. She’s smitten with the shy young caretaker at the convent at the top of the hill. Dann has created a young girl who accepts the unkindness of the mad universe in which she’s whirling and takes it on with a savage glee.
Charlotte Flax is like no one you have ever met - and someone you know very well.
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
Category: | Fiction |
Runtime: | 4.11 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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