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| About the Book | |
Buy both volumes of The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport and get a discount!Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations, each one vitally connected to a ghost town located where sea meets land on Santa Cruz County’s northern coast. In 1959 Kaitlin Lowrie resettles in Cliffport with her mother and her son — the only household hanging on in an all-but-forgotten locale. But in 1965 Janice McLoughlin, long-absentee landlady, shows up and is determined to sell the place. Elisabeth Lowrie despairs of their being evicted from her cherished, lifelong home. It falls to the feisty Lowrie daughter to span the gap between the two older women. While the outspoken Jan tells her life story aloud, Katie has also to read her mother’s notebooks in the more formal language of Elise’s memoir. Katie dreams then schemes how to stay living on the land. In their letters, phone calls, journals, and conversations, we hear the distinct yet disparate voices of these strong-willed women — tough on the outside, sensitive within — as they come to terms with one another and themselves. Katie, Elise, Jan: three naked ladies, each in her own way as resilient, enduring, and irrepressible as the wild bulbous Amaryllis belladonna plants rooted out West and surviving up and down California’s Central Coast.
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Born and raised in metropolitan New York and rural New England, upon graduation from Bard College in 1970 the author went West and has stayed out West ever since. Fifty years observing the natural world inevitably informs his writing; his narratives also grow out of his career in gardening, landscape design, nursery production, and the commercial seed trade in Northern California and Oregon. A grandfather, Peter enjoys exploring then Pacific Coast States with a focus on its flora, fauna, geology, and cultural history. |