Niagara / Mary Woronov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woronov, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Niagara Falls (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Niagara Falls (N.Y.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Serpent's Tail, 2002.

Summary:

Molly and her half brother Kenny are obsessed with a Niagara folktale about an Indian girl who is sacrificed in the Falls. Then Kenny plunges to his death on the night of their high school graduation, and Molly, in despair, marries Kenny's best friend and flees to arid Southern California. Molly becomes a drunk, while her husband flourishes as a San Bernardino car salesman. Forced to return home for her father's funeral, Molly uncovers a different version of her past, full of family secrets and frustrated love. She begins to believe that Kenny is not really dead, and that her mother and her husband never loved her. Molly is caustic, excruciatingly funny, and emotionally remote. A champion swimmer in school, she believes she has the soul of a shark and now, trapped on land, she bites her husband's hand, mutilates her life, and longs to swim away into oblivion. In the gripping conclusion to Niagara, on a trip to the Annacappa Islands Molly has to decide if she's going to become the fatalist heroine of her childhood fantasies.

Contents:

1 Inside the Christmas tree 1

2 Dr Ming 9

3 The gift 16

4 East of the sun 25

5 Project barrel 32

6 The ballbreaker 39

7 The sacrifice 49

8 The car dealer's wife 59

9 Going home 67

10 The beard 76

11 Maid of the mist 86

12 The snow plough 93

13 The Indian 99

14 House life 109

15 Mother's tale 118

16 Ghost 129

17 An affair 139

18 Alone 152

19 Chinese lunch 163

20 My brother 176

21 The home 187

22 Honeymoon 196

23 Underwater 207.

ISBN:

1852428015

OCLC:

48753856