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"I danced and danced because the neon light across the road had just blinked on, because it was the middle of spring, because I was twenty-one, because my father was playing beside me. . . ." In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. Gerry Sayer was a jazz drummer, a beguiling Irish charmer with a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. Mandy grew up captivated by his outrageous tales even after he left the family for good and her mother descended into the distance of drink. When her siblings failed him by rejecting the bohemian performing life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in his stories, part of the only life he really loved. So she learned to tap-dance, and they set off together to satisfy their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world--New York. Driven by their dream of making it big, Mandy and Gerry arrived in the city with no place to stay and only costumes to their names. They became part of the thrilling, precarious world of street performers--jugglers, magicians, fire-eaters, dancers--who eked out their livings at the mercy of the elements, the cops, complaining neighbors, and lurking thieves. In cinematic detail, Sayer tells of the first exhilarating season in New York City, earning $200 a night on Columbus Avenue; offsetting the physical pain of endless performance with the incomparable rush that accompanied it; the long, difficult winter in New Orleans, surviving on avocados and raw vegetables in unheated apartments; and their final unforgettable return to New York. Entwined with this singular story of a busker's life is the deeper, more intimate story of Mandy's transformation from a girl searching for her father's love into a woman who could invent her own language and find her own voice. For ultimately Dreamtime Alice is a triumphant record of a young woman's discovery that she could create her own story at last.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345423321
ISBN-13
9780345423320
eBay Product ID (ePID)
863104

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dreamtime Alice : a Memoir
Author
Mandy Sayer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Parenting / Fatherhood, Adult Children of Substance Abusers, General, Literary
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Family & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pr9619.3.S276z464
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-040378
Dewey Decimal
823
Dewey Edition
21

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