Billie Livingston

• Nov-2000
• / General Fiction
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A remarkable debut novel and bittersweet tale of the unflinching love and devotion between a mother and daughter. Razor sharp and darkly funny, Going Down Swinging chronicles two years in the life of the Hoffmans. Eilleen Hoffman has just told Dann...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction
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Vivian is late to her own mother's funeral. Wearing a skintight lipstick-red suit, Vivian stands out like a pornographer's dream amongst the raven collection of West Coast intellectuals mourning the untimely death of the famous feminist Josie Callwoo...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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A young misfit is assaulted by a delusional homeless man and subsequently finds herself caught in the middle of two bullying cops who invite her to hit back; an impulsive and restless mother hungers for independence but wants company along the way; a...

• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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"The tightly paced, free-flowing stories in Single Voice deliver blow after powerful blow with unflinching honesty, original plots, and startling twists. Presented in flip-book format, each book contains two stories told by teenagers at crucial momen...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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If you act like Marlene, you end up like Marlene -- messed up, lonely and broke. No wonder Samantha rejects her mother’s lifestyle. In THE TROUBLE WITH MARLENE, mother and daughter share one thing -- thoughts of suicide. Marlene never stops tal...

• Jul-2012
• / Literary
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The child of 2 con artists, 16-year-old Sammie Bell always prided herself on knowing the score. But now she finds herself backed into a corner. After a hustle gone dangerously wrong, her mother, Marlene, is sliding into an abyss of alcoholic depressi...

• Mar-2016
• / Literary
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From acclaimed Canadian novelist Billie Livingston comes this powerful U.S. debut that unfolds over a riveting dual narrative -- an unforgettable story of ordinary lives rocked by hardship and scandal that follows in the tradition of Jennifer Haigh, ...