Going Nowhere Sideways: A Novel - Softcover

Curran, Leigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156474289X ISBN 13: 9781564742896

Publisher: Fithian Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Molly Williams recalls her experiences from Woodstock in the sixties to the fall of the Berlin wall twenty years later

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From the Publisher:

August, 1969. Molly Williams is young, conservative and inexperienced when she discovers her boyfriend necking with his male roommate in a Greenwich Village restaurant. She freaks out, hitches a ride to Woodstock, does drugs for the first time and winds up in medical emergency in the arms of Johnson, a gentle, spiritual Asian-American.

Thus begins a roller-coaster ride that takes Molly through the thrills and fears of growth and complicated relationships. When things don't work out with Johnson, Molly becomes emotionally, physically, and artistically involved with her former sister-in-law, Nancy, in a relationship full of fire.

Molly survives twenty years of emotional adventure and emerges a fully realized woman and artist. Along the way she has lived in the real world, a world made up of the Vietnam War, Nixon, gay rights, Reagan and artistic trends that marked the passing decades between Woodstock and the end of the Cold War.

From the Back Cover:

"Molly Williams sets out for Woodstock on a quest for the soft loving parts of her soul and doesn't stop until the Berlin Wall falls two decades later. Leigh Curran has created a heroine unique to our culture in this poignant first novel."

--Kathy Bates, Actress

"Leigh Curran writes both tough and tender. This book gets inside you, curls up and stays for a while. A great ride through the cultural zeitgeist. . .twenty tumultuous years in a woman's, and a generation's, life."

--Peter Lefcourt, author of The Deal, The Dreyfuss Affair, and The Woody

"A stunning novel in which Leigh Curran, through point/counterpoint chapters (the journals and letters of Molly Williams and exquisite narrative) takes us on a journey of discovery--discovery of both the limits and the gifts of the human spirit. Curran will have you laughing one minute and weeping the next as Molly journeys to the realization that there are no accidents in life."

--Mifanwy Kaiser, Spillway

About this edition

• Publisher: Fithian Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 156474289X
• ISBN 13: 9781564742896
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222