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Breaking Out of Bedlam

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Written in the form of a tell-all journal that is by turns profound, gossipy, and confessional, Breaking Out of Bedlam captures the loneliness and secrets that lurk within families, the reality facing women with limited choices, and the triumph of the human spirit.

About the Author :
LESLIE LARSON is the author of the novel "Slipstream," which won the Astraea Award for Fiction. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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"A kick....Reading [Cora's]'journals, ' as she reawakens, finds a friend and a paramour, and plots her escape, is a hoot." --"The""New York Times " "Tough-edged Cora Sledge, 82, is a reluctant resident of The Palisades nursing home--a 'prison [where] your only crime is you lived too long.' Her tell-all journal, recounting dramas at the home (thefts, love affairs, rivalries) and a tragedy buried in her past, is profane, harrowing, comical--and Cora's voice is spot-on." --"AARP" Magazine ""Breaking out of Bedlam" is a fun--and inspiring--read, that proves you're never too old to really start living." --"Instinct" magazine "Larson has drawn a winning character in Cora . . . a Confederate Stone Angel, with our Hagar as template. Like Hagar, she is rude, crude, arrogant, and totally without apology--and readers should admire her for it." --"The Hamilton Spectator" (Canada) "Delightful . . . Larson injects a jolt of liveliness into the bleak setting of an assisted living home, thanks to the obstinate and crass narrator, 82-year-old Cora Sledge. . . . Cora's machinations--sometimes wily, sometimes curious, always funny--and her lovable crustiness give this plenty of heart and humor." --"Publishers Weekly" "Heartwarming and funny, with nary a slip into sentimentality." --"Kirkus "Reviews "Leslie Larson is a writer of tales that are hilarious and heartbreaking at once--no easy feat, but the mark of great storytelling. She writes with an intimate eye and heart about citizens so familiar to the American landscape, we don't even see them." --Sandra Cisneros," " author of" The House on Mango Street " "Leslie Larson has created an original in Cora Sledge. Overweight with secrets, tough as she is ill, Cora is about to spill the beans on her ill-mannered, kidnapping children in a journal given to her by a grandchild. Instead, what she discovers in this moving and funny novel about assisted living is, to her as


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780307460769
  • Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Shaye Areheart Books
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 311
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0307460762
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 581 gr


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