All New People by Anne Lamott

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Anne Lamott
• Title: All New People
• Publisher: ‎ North Point Press (1989)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 166 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0865473943
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0865473942
• Item Weight: ‎ .80 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.3 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Acceptable (missing front inside cover page and shows some discoloration on pages / page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good (inside corner on front cover clipped)

Synopsis:

With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties.

Leading us through the wake of these changes is Nanny Goodman, a girl living in Marin County, California. A half-adult child among often childish adults, Nanny grows up with two spectacularly odd parents: a writer father and a mother who is a constant source of material. As she moves into her adolescence, so, it seems, does America.

While grappling with her own coming-of-age, Nanny witnesses an entire culture's descent into drugs, the mass exodus of fathers from her town, and rapid real-estate and technological development that foreshadow a drastically different future.

In All New People, Anne Lamott works a special magic, transforming failure into forgiveness and illuminating the power of love to redeem us.

About the Author:

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and Hallelujah Anyway.

She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.