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Mermaids by Patty Dann (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312333943

ISBN-139780312333942

eBay Product ID (ePID)30785339

Product Key Features

Book TitleMermaids

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFamily Life, Coming of Age

Publication Year2004

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorPatty Dann

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-051477

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"This is a really funny book about people trying to find something to hang onto in a world that keeps shifting under their feet. Patty Dann guides us through the guerilla war between mother and daughter, through the minefields that lie between being a child and being an adult in a voice not like any we've heard before." - John Sayles "Pure gold...energetic...frisky...a pleasure!" - Kirkus Reviews "Antic and poignant slice-of-coming-of-age-novel...a quirky charm will delight readers!" - ALA Booklist "Charming, fresh...sharply etched." - Publishers Weekly

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Synopsis"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 fourteen-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., 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 fourteen-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.

LC Classification NumberPS3554.A575M4 2004