Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe A Novel |
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| Author:
| Hollowell, Jenny |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8050-9119-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press
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| Imprint: | Saint Martin's Griffin |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.99 |
Book Description:
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A young woman caught at the turning point between success and failure hopes fame and fortune will finally let her leave her old life--and her old self--behind Birdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At twenty-two, she sets off to do just that. Walking out on her pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents, she leaves behind her small-town, small-time life and gets on a bus to Los Angeles. Nine years later, Birdie's life in...
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A young woman caught at the turning point between success and failure hopes fame and fortune will finally let her leave her old life--and her old self--behind
Birdie Baker has always dreamed of becoming someone else. At twenty-two, she sets off to do just that. Walking out on her pastor husband and deeply evangelical parents, she leaves behind her small-town, small-time life and gets on a bus to Los Angeles.
Nine years later, Birdie's life in Hollywood is far from golden, and nothing in the intervening years--the brutal auditions, the tawdry commercials--has brought her any closer to the transformation she craves. Caught between success and failure, haunted by guilt about a tragedy in her long-forsaken family, Birdie is at the brink of collapse when she meets Lewis, a beautiful but naïve young actor with his own troubled history, whose self-destructive impulses run dangerously parallel to herown.
When her big chance finally comes, Birdie must reconcile the wide-eyed girl she once was with the jaded starlet she has become and try to find herself and her future somewhere in between.Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe is the story of a young woman's struggle to make her own way in the Technicolor land of make-believe.