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The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport: Volume II by Peter Boffey

The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport: Volume II

by Peter Boffey

512 pages
Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations claim a ghost-town on Santa Cruz County's northern coast as their rightful home. In letters, phone calls, journals, a memoir, and their conversations, we hear the distinct voices of these strong-willed women-each tough on the outside, yet sensitive within.

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In Volume I, we heard the distinct yet disparate voices of Elisabeth and Katelyn Lowrie, and Jan McLoughlin, as they struggled to come to terms with one another and themselves. We witnessed Elise—despairing over failing communications with her headstrong daughter—retreat to the attic, there to embark upon her memoir composed as a long letter to her only child. Meanwhile, downstairs, buoyed up by her bottles of whisky and cartons of unfiltered cigarettes, Jan—the outspoken landowner returning after fifty years—launches out on telling her life story to Katie aloud.

In Volume II, we watch Katie spanning the gap between the two older women while hatching a plan that may enable the Lowries (and Donald Duncan, Katie’s 10-year-old son) to remain living on the place.

Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations, each of whom claims Cliffport—a ghost town on Santa Cruz County’s northern coast—as her rightful home. Three women baring their hearts and minds to one another and to us. 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 on their own along California’s Central Coast.

 

Related Titles
  • The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport: Volume I by Peter Boffey
    Three single mothers of three bastard children from three generations claim Cliffport - a ghost town on Santa Cruz County's northern coast - as their home. In letters, phone calls, journals, and conversations, we hear the distinct and disparate voices of these strong-willed women - each tough on the outside yet sensitive within.
  • The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport: Volume III by Peter Boffey
    How, against all odds, can the Lowrie women thrive or even survive as the last pioneer household living in ghost-town Cliffport, California, the one place they know best and love most?
  • The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport: Volume IV by Peter Boffey
    Santa Cruz’ North Coast community finally sours on an unscrupulous developer; fighting the obliteration of all she values, an aging Katie Lowrie, last living member of Cliffport’s pioneer family, becomes reluctant leader of the resistance.

 

About the Author
Peter Boffey 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.

 

 

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