It's southern California in the early Sixties, and Charlotte is a teenager, which is bad enough. She also has strange grandparents, with whom she lives, a schizophrenic ventriloquist alcoholic mother who appears and disappears regularly from her life, and only vague information about the father who died before Charlotte was born. With so much craziness in the family, Charlotte figures, whether it's "nature" or "nurture," she's doomed. In Failure to Zigzag , Jane Vandenburgh gracefully zigzags between hilarity and sorrow ...
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It's southern California in the early Sixties, and Charlotte is a teenager, which is bad enough. She also has strange grandparents, with whom she lives, a schizophrenic ventriloquist alcoholic mother who appears and disappears regularly from her life, and only vague information about the father who died before Charlotte was born. With so much craziness in the family, Charlotte figures, whether it's "nature" or "nurture," she's doomed. In Failure to Zigzag , Jane Vandenburgh gracefully zigzags between hilarity and sorrow as she recounts Charlotte's attempts to grow up and to practice "sanity as a form of revenge."
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Add this copy of Failure to Zigzag to cart. $2.92, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Ruby rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Avon Books.
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Very Good. Signed, 2nd printing, Avon Books trade paperback, 1990. Book is VG+, w/ clean text, straight & uncreased spine, binding tight enough to suggest it is unread. Very light edgewear. Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. CE5-A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. A novel set in southern California in the early 1960s. The main character is a teenager who has to deal with and live with strange grandparents, a schizophrenic ventriloquist alcoholic mother who appears and disappears regularly from her life, and only vague information about her father who died before she was born. 329p.
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