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Daisy Buchanan's Daughter

Daisy Buchanan's Daughter( )
Author: Carson, Tom
Illustrator: Arthur, Glenn
ISBN:978-0-931181-34-4
Publication Date:Jun 2011
Publisher:Paycock Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

She was born during the Jazz Age and grew up in Paris and the American Midwest after her father's death on the polo field and her mother's later suicide. As a young war reporter, she waded ashore on Omaha Beach and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. She spent the 1950s hobnobbing in Hollywood with Marlene Dietrich and Gene Kelly. She went to West Africa as an Ambassador's wife as Jack Kennedy's Camelot dawned. She comforted a distraught LBJ in Washington, DC, as the Vietnam war turned...
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Book Details
Pages:628
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Family Life / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.8 x 1.4 x 8.7 Inches
Book Weight:1.8 Pounds
Author Biography
Carson, Tom (Author)
Tom Carson was born in Germany in 1956, he grew up living abroad. He graduated in 1977 from Princeton University, where he won the Samuel Shellabarger award for creative writing. Carson is the author of Gilligan's Wake, a New York Times Notable Book of The Year for 2003, and Daisy Buchanan's Daughter, 2011. Currently he is GQ's "The Critic," where he won two National Magazine Awards for criticism as Esquire magazine's "Screen" columnist and has been nominated two more times since.

A former resident of Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles, he now lives in New Orleans with his wife, Arion Berger. 030



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