Dreamtime Alice: A Memoir

Cloth-backed boards in white dust jacket with 'autograph' sticker on front.; 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall; Signed by Author(s)

From Publisher:

Gerry Sayer was a jazz drummer in Australia, a beguiling Irish charmer With a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. His daughter, Mandy, grew up captivated by his outrageous tales -- even after Gerry left the family for good and her mother descended into the distance of drink. But when her siblings failed him by rejecting his bohemian life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in the stories she loved. So she learned to tap dance, and the two became a team, testing their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world -- the streets of New York.

DREAMTIME ALICE is Mandy Sayer's vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir of those years spent performing in New York and New Orleans. But entwined with this singular story of a busker's life is the deeper, more intimate story of Mandy's transformation from the girl Alice, searching for her father's love, into a woman who could create her own language and find her own voice.

Ultimately, DREAMTIME ALICE is the triumphant chronicle of a young woman who discovers that she can invent her own story at last.

Product Info

ISBN: 0345423321

ISBN-13: 9780345423320

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Year: 1998

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

Seller Info

GFWilkinsonBooks

Address: 10440 KEENAN WAY Grass Valley, California

Website: https://www.gfwilkinsonbooks.com

Country: United States