People In The Park by Marjorie Leet Ford
If we thought we could get away with it, this would be called 'Tails of the City'-It's a witty, warm, wonderfully eccentric novel which like Maupin's throws an irresistible concoction of San Francisco characters and life together, this time in a park and with their dogs. Inevitably the owners grow like their dogs, if they aren't already; they (that's the owners) pour out their souls to strangers in the park; they fall in love, requited and unrequited; they write poetry; they grow old, they worry, have affairs, learn French, cooking, horticulture - life, with its ups and downs like the San Francisco streets, goes on- for Tobin, the ex-hippie poet gardener, who holds it all together; and for skinny Hillary Birdwood with her thick specs and wild silver retriever Tess; for the saturnine and sexy psychiatrist and his unlikely corgi; for Jake and his Aghan trio; for Anna Leone and Dr Hawthorne with Posy the bichon fries and Romeo the rottweiler; and Nigel, Chantal and Roger the standard poodle, and a whole host of others and their pooches - all set against the irresistible backdrop of one of the most enticing and evocative cities in the world.
Marjorie Leet is a broadcaster and writer, living in California. She was the instigator of the 'Tell Me a Story' series on US National Public Radio, for which she got writers all over the world to read their own stories, including Raymond Carver, Roald Dahl, V. S. Prichett, Jamaica Kincaid, Eudora Welty, Tobias Wolff. She was once an au pair in England, and her first novel, Diary of an American Au Pair is published in June 2002 in Vintage.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701174033 |
| ISBN 10 | 070117403X |
| Title | People In The Park |
| Author | Marjorie Leet Ford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2003-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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