Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2687198 in Books
• Published on: 1996-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 191 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Originally published in 1982, Nietzke's debut novel investigates the wayward lives of the boardwalk denizens of Venice, California.

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Customer Reviews

Deft, insightful rendition of the Venice pantomime
Nietzke enters into a dialogue with her characters, the inhabitants of the edge of America. Leaning into the waves, propelled from across the country she collects and transmits the stories of the people of the foreground and background of the mural that is Venice, California. She describes those in her adopted community with an unusual degree of insight and compassion. As they are timeless so are her stories of them and, one presumes, of herself among them - a woman who has taken up the great challenge of writing her own life.