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      Failure to Zigzag

      by Jane Vandenburgh
      Published
      Oct 1990
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      329
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      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, and only vague information about the father who died before Charlotte was born.

      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."

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      First Edition Oct 1990 Avon ISBN13 9780380710195 ISBN10 0380710196
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      Mar 2000 Counterpoint LLC ISBN13 9781582430768 ISBN10 1582430764
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      Mar 1989 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780865473560 ISBN10 0865473560
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      May 2000 Counterpoint ISBN13 9781582438955 ISBN10 1582438951
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      May 2000 Counterpoint ISBN10 B005X9AO4K
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