| Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir Reader's Guide/ Edition Contributor(s): Gildiner, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 014200040X ISBN-13: 9780142000403 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: The author shares her memories about growing up in the 1950s in Lewiston, New York, a small town near Niagara Falls, that are by turns hilarious and deeply moving. As a four-year old, she could read road maps, and made deliveries for her father's pharmacy, including sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe while she was in town filming "Niagara". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - School Age |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.48" W x 7.34" (0.56 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - New York - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, New York, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls. Divorce is unheard of, mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon, and television has only just arrived. At the tender age of four, Cathy accompanies Roy, the deliveryman at her father's pharmacy, on his routes. She shares some of their memorable deliveries-sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe (in town filming Niagara), sedatives to Mad Bear, a violent Tuscarora chief, and fungus cream to Warty, the gentle operator of the town dump. As she reaches her teenage years, Cathy's irrepressible spirit spurs her from dangerous sled rides that take her too close to the Falls to tipsy dances with the town priest. |