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Counterpoint
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
Featuring: Dorothy White; Dale
256 pages
ISBN: 1619025280
EAN: 9781619025288
Kindle: B00UUHJZU4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Our Town is the debut of a striking literary voice, one that
captures the disillusion at the fringes of Hollywood as seen
through a haze of drugs, alcohol, abuse, and fallen
aspirations. An unseen narrator guides us through the dark
fairy tale of Dorothy White, an aspiring actress who “never
quite figured how to get out of her own way.” Her perfect marriage to an equally golden actor, Dale,
quickly turns into one of jealousy and violence. Dorothy
ends the marriage yet begins a legacy of self-destruction
for the failed couple, as well as their two children, Clover
and Dylan. But we see the pathos in Dorothy’s attempts to get back on
track, to be a good woman, mother, and grandmother. Throughout the novel, she is left in the wake of decisions
that turn disastrous. Her downward spiral from elusive fame
into consistent infamy—a series of DUIs, the continuing
neglect of her children, a string of failed and unhealthy
relationships—is not without its grace, with the warmth of
her character shining through her spackled makeup and cloud
of acrid perfume. In many ways, Dorothy White is an anti-heroine for the
ages—“vanilla voiced,” bewigged, loving, and ever radiant —a
sympathetic character caught in the riptide of her
transformation from small-town southern girl to one-time
toast of Hollywood to embarrassing tabloid fodder. Our Town is an original and startling debut novel, one whose
fresh voice and expert perspective reinvents the Hollywood
story for a new generation of readers.
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