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The Deception Artist - Softcover

Fox, Fayette

 
9781908434241: The Deception Artist
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908434244 ISBN 13: 9781908434241
Verlag: Myriad Editions, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Eight-year-old Ivy is the deception artist: shehas a vivid imagination and tells lies so thatpeople will like her. With her brother, Brice,in hospital, life at home feels unsettled andthings become even more strained after herfather loses his job, along with his sense ofpurpose.Ivy s worries deepen as her dad fails to cope withhis wife s career success and forms a dubiousfriendship with recently-divorced Olivia. Herparents might divorce and her best friend hates herbut, ever creative, Ivy tries to stay afloat throughfantasies, superstitions and pretense.Set in Northern California in the late 1980srecession, and seen through the eyes of aremarkable little girl, this literary debut is acompelling story, told with humour andcompassion, about a family under pressure,grappling with difficult times.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Fayette Fox is a freelance writer, a former commissioning editor for Lonely Planet and currently works as the Writer and Community Manager for Jaunty, an organisation which teaches social intelligence. She holds an MA in Publishing from the London College of Communication and a BA in Creative Writing from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Fox has trekked in the Nepalese Himalayas, taught sex education to teenage girls in India, radio-tracked echidnas in Australia, weeded rice paddies on organic farms in Japan and been attacked by a giant centipede. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when not writing or reminiscing about her own 1980s childhood, she enjoys hiking in the region’s golden hills and redwood forests which serve as the backdrop for her writing.

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Verlag
Myriad Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908434244
ISBN 13 
9781908434241
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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