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Beachglass
- Title
- Beachglass / Wendy Blackburn.
- Author
- Blackburn, Wendy.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3602.L32529 B43 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 330 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "When Delia entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at age seventeen in Los Angeles, her life changed completely: She became immersed in AA, began to heal old family wounds, and developed a whole new perspective on herself, on spirituality, on relationships. Out of the rubble, she built a life that any recovering woman would be proud of, with a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, and her own brand of hard-won wisdom." "But her long-term sobriety is put to the test when she receives a phone call from her gay best friend, Timothy. Fulfilling a pact they made a decade prior, Delia tears herself away from her new life in Seattle and rushes to Los Angeles, to Timothy's bedside. There she must face the one thing she fears her sobriety cannot survive - losing him." "Back in Los Angeles, Delia begins to encounter familiar people, places, and temptations - a barrage of memories that makes her stop and sort through her past, looking for the courage she knows she needs now more than ever. As her past catches up with her present, she sees that she has not merely survived her losses and mistakes, but has been made stronger because of them. This understanding comes to her in full as she holds a piece of beachglass in her hand and realizes that its scuffs and scrapes give it its quiet splendor, its imperfections give it its beauty and individuality, and it is from being tossed and tumbled that it no longer shatters. She knows the same goes for her, too." "Set against the backdrop of West Hollywood in the late 1980s, populated by a drag queen and a stripper, beautiful boys and artists, and told by a narrator with equal doses of self-deprecating humor, old-soul awareness, fallibility, and brutal honesty, Beachglass is a gritty and uplifting story of recovery, a novel that presents a fresh look into the world of AA and renders a convincing picture of the constant struggle to go into recovery and stay there - no matter what."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Beach glass
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0312351585
- LCCN
- 2006040803
- 9780312351588
- OCLC
- OCM62878735
- SCSB-5250785
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries