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| About the Book | |
Buy both volumes of The Three Naked Ladies of Cliffport and get a discount!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.
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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. |