Expecting To Fly
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Expecting to Fly
Author: Martha Tod Dudman
language: en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 2010-06-15
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN? MARTHA TOD DUDMAN DOES. It starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties. Describing a time weirdly similar to today, Expecting to Fly recalls a conservative government embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war, racial tensions, and a generation of disillusioned young people looking for something meaningful to believe in -- teenagers who, like Dudman, hurled themselves into a sea of drugs and sex they weren't really ready for. With the same passion and brutal honesty that she brought to her first book, Augusta, Gone -- the story of her daughter's troubled adolescence -- Dudman re-creates her own wild ride through the turbulent Sixties, vividly recounting scenes you probably experienced yourself. From the prim tradition of a posh girls' school and debutante parties of Washington, D.C., to the snows of New Hampshire and the campaign for Eugene McCarthy, from living out of a knapsack in Spain to getting stoned on acid in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Expecting to Fly takes us on a blistering trip to a time when the only thing you couldn't be was shocked. Now, years later, Dudman reflects on that time and what it means: "Which was it -- triumph, exploration, some important journey, or just a big stupid mistake, a total waste of time?" You decide.
Expecting to Fly
Author: Christy Smith
language: en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date: 2015-09-07
Little Jessie Nelson was expecting to grow wings and fly right out of the old oak tree and straight to heaven to be with her mother. All alone and abandoned, she was ready to go home and find peace. But a greater plan was at work for this small ember, and the black emptiness that shadowed her small existence would soon fall away, to become a light out of the darkness. Set in their ways and too blind to see beyond their own selfish needs, the Miller boys had it all: looks, talent, and money. Following the path of pride, fearlessness, and immortality, their possibilities were endless. Growing up in the world of the elite, nothing could have prepared them for the year they meet Jessie.
Expecting to Fly
Author: Cathy Hopkins
language: en
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Release Date: 2009-09-21
India Jane's under pressure from all corners It's decision time for India Jane: what subjects she needs to take, what career paths are open to her and what boy she wants as her boyfriend. On the one hand she feels that she's standing on the threshold of her future, with hopes and dreams to fly with. On the other hand, the harsh realities of life mean that her dreams and the boys in her life never go according to plan! The fourth book in the CINNAMON GIRL series.