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    The Serial: A Year In The Life Of Marin County
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    The Serial: A Year In The Life Of Marin County

    By Cyra McFadden and Tom Cervenak

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    About this ebook

    To mark 35 years since The Serial first satirized the silliness of 1970s California, the bestselling novel is back, with new artwork, bonus features, interviews and reviews from the time, plus a new preface by author Cyra McFadden. A comic send up of the 1960s Californian lifestyle - personal growth, human life styling and living together relationships. Kate and Harvey Holroyd try to stay hip and loose through a welter of lentil loaves, natural fibres, enzymes and Zen jogging. From the author of "Rain or Shine".

    Set at the very epicentre of the self-obsessed 1970s, when everyone talks (without ever saying anything) in the psychobabble of faddish self-help manuals, it’s the most sophisticated, liberated, high energy, naturally organic and hilarious adult soap opera ever!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApostrophe Books Ltd
    Release dateNov 21, 2012
    ISBN9781908556431
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    The Serial: A Year In The Life Of Marin County
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    Cyra McFadden

    Cyra McFadden is a Bay Area novelist and journalist. Her first book, The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County, was a bestseller worldwide. Her second, Rain or Shine, A Family Memoir, was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of non-fiction. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Smithsonian and other magazines. She has also been a newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and UPI, Writer in Residence at St. Paul’s Girls’ School, London, England, and Richard Hugo Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. Born in Great Falls, Montana, McFadden received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature (the latter Magna Cum Laude) from San Francisco State University, where she also taught in the English and Creative Writing departments. She now lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, California and works as a freelance writer and editor.

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    • 3/5
      If you don't remember the 1970's, this book will just be stupid. However, if you do remember that unfortunate decade with all its pretensions, and especially if you remember it in the California Bay area, this book will keep you laughing from page one until the end.I realize this is probably a niche market for the book, but for me, it was a fun read during a rainy weekend.
    • 5/5
      Replacement copy for my original ringbound edition. Hilarious take on the hip zeitgeist in 70s California.