Nancy Lee (1)
Forfatter af Dead Girls
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Nancy Lee is the author of The Age and Dead Girls. An assistant professor in creative writing at the University of British Columbia, she lives in Steveston, B.C., with her husband, the author John Vigna.
Værker af Nancy Lee
Associated Works
Two Worlds Walking: Short Stories, Essays, and Poetry by Writers of Mixed Heritages (1996) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Margaret Atwood Presents: Stories by Canada's Best New Women Writers (2004) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
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- female
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- Canada
- Fødested
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Bopæl
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Uddannelse
- University of British Columbia
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- 4
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- 90
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- #205,795
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- 3.5
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- 36
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- 4
This is a story about Geraldine, referred to as Gerry, an angry and fiercely troubled teenager, an adrogynous-looking girl who de-feminizes her physicality to look and act more like a boy, a kid roughened up perhaps to subconsciously toughen herself up against the pain of her upbringing—or rather in this case, her lack of one—the physical and emotional abandonment of her father.
In response, Gerry attaches herself to an older and exclusive group, one that is more than a bunch of misfits, but a group whose ideology is both dangerous and highly politicized—activists whose plans to participate in a Peace March is more than succumbing to spectatorship, but rather a direct involvement in misguided terrorism.
But, amidst the extremity of the book is a saving grace in a few of the unexpected characters, from Gerry’s grandfather, Henry, a news reporter whose divorce to his third wife plummets him into emotional and financial bankruptcy, yet a reserved kindness to a granddaughter whose life has hardened her to attachment and kindness itself.
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