"Daddy Boy" is that rare thing--a lyrical novel that rocks with laughter and features a cast of truly compelling characters. Robin D. tells us the story of growning up between her warring, eccentric parents. Daddy was once hardscrabble poor, a wildcatter in the Texas Panhandle. Now he's oil-baron rich and living it up in Hollywood, where he met Robin D.'s mother, a Virginia aristocrat turned cover girl and movie starlet who met Daddy at the peak of her career. Their inevitable divorce sets the stage for Robin's tale, ...
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"Daddy Boy" is that rare thing--a lyrical novel that rocks with laughter and features a cast of truly compelling characters. Robin D. tells us the story of growning up between her warring, eccentric parents. Daddy was once hardscrabble poor, a wildcatter in the Texas Panhandle. Now he's oil-baron rich and living it up in Hollywood, where he met Robin D.'s mother, a Virginia aristocrat turned cover girl and movie starlet who met Daddy at the peak of her career. Their inevitable divorce sets the stage for Robin's tale, written by Carey Cameron with an exquisite delicacy and deep insight. In "Daddy Boy, " human foibles are gilded by the California sun, Texas oil, and the glare of 1960s Hollywood.
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Very Good. An Uncorrected Proof in pale tan wrappers. Dust soiling to the covers, and some smudging to the page edges. A first novel that transcends the poor little rich girl convention to show the truth behind the stereotype.; 290 pages.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Laid in black and white photograph of author, and advertisement for book by Algonquin Books. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
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Good with no dust jacket; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 290 pages; No Dust Jacket, Green cloth quarter spine with white boards. Very lightly rubbed at edges. Text pages clean and tight.
