Too close to the falls
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Catherine Gildiner
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780007152841; 9780007152834
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: "Meet Cathy - she started full-time work at four to cure her hyperactivity. Her best friend is 30 years older and obsessed with gambling; her mother looks the part of a perfect 50s housewife but refuses to play it; while her workaholic father has been chosen by most of her class as Lewiston's present-day saint. She's met the town abortionist, delivered sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe, stabbed the school bully with a compass and spiked her church's holy water with vodka. And she's just getting started"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Originally published: Toronto : ECW, 1999.