Jane Vandenburgh is the award–winning author of two novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset, as well as Architecture of the Novel, A Writer's Handbook and The Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century, A Memoir. She has taught writing and literature at U. C. Davis, the George Washington University, and, most recently, at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, Callfornia/5(9). Books» Failure to Zigzag Continuously in print since its first publication in , Jane Vandenburgh’s first novel tells the story of Charlotte Black, growing up fatherless in a crazy family. Set in Southern California in the s, the book paints a portrait of Charlotte’s mother, Katrinka Ainsworth, carnival ventriloquist and mental patient. In LitRes digital library you can download the book Failure To Zigzag / A Novel by Jane Vandenburgh! Read reviews of the book and write your own at LitRes!
"My first novel ('Failure to Zigzag') is a careful portrait of my mother, who was a paranoid schizophrenic who drank a whole lot," Vandenburgh said during a recent visit to Portland."She had. With so much craziness in the family, Charlotte figures, whether it's "nature" or "nurture," she's doomed. In Failure to Zigzag, Jane Vandenburgh gracefully zigzags between hilarity and sorrow as she recounts Charlotte's attempts to grow up and to practice "sanity as a form of revenge.". From the highly acclaimed author of "Failure to Zigzag" comes a blisteringly funny and poignant new novel about the freedoms and imprisonments of desire--the story of two California families and the doomed love affair that unwittingly connects them.
Books about The Failure to Zigzag. Language: en Authors: Jane Vandenburgh. Categories: Fiction. Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Catapult Get BOOK. Failure To Zigzag: A Novel - Kindle edition by Vandenburgh, Jane. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Failure To Zigzag: A Novel. About this book. Read. Failure To Zigzag - A Novel. Jane Vandenburgh. Counterpoint. 0. 0. 0. It's southern California in the early Sixties, and Charlotte is a teenager, which is bad enough. She also has strange grandparents, with whom she lives, a schizophrenic ventriloquist alcoholic mother who appears and disappears regularly from her life.
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