| America the Beautiful Contributor(s): Zappa, Moon Unit (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743213831 ISBN-13: 9780743213837 Publisher: Touchstone Books OUR PRICE: $19.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: From an author who has been famous since birth comes an affecting and funny novel about love, heartbreak, and the complexities of growing up as hippie royalty. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001020566 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.4" W x 8.02" (0.71 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: America Throne is living the good life in L.A. Her career is sprouting, and she is in love -- with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falters on the slippery slope of hope: hoping that he will come back, hoping that new sex will erase all evidence of him, and hoping that in nurturing a truce with her dead father she will make peace with all men. America's trip from self-destruction to wholeness is a romp on the wilder shores of the West Coast. From a dodgy therapist to a silent retreat, America Throne's aha moment culminates with, While we are all busy swimming upstream, the universe is conspiring to take us to something better. In America the Beautiful, Moon Zappa has taken the broken-heart story and given it a twist all her own through the emotional honesty and edginess of America Throne. Hailed as brilliant (Sunday Telegraph Magazine), America the Beautiful is the debut of an unforgettable and unfaltering new voice |