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Slow Motion: A True Story (Harvest Book)

by Dani Shapiro

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ISBN13: 9780156008471
ISBN10: 0156008475
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Dani Shapiro, a young woman from a deeply religious home, became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney-her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began drinking, and neglected her friends and family. But then came a phone call-an accident on a snowy road had left her parents critically injured. Forced to reconsider her life, Shapiro learned to re-enter the world she had left. Telling of a life nearly ruined by the gift of beauty, and then saved through tragedy, Shapiro's memoir is a beautiful account of how a life gone terribly wrong can be rescued through tragedy.

Review:

"A page-turner."-Mademoiselle

"No doubt to regroup as rapidly as Shapiro does requires brutal honesty and a well-honed sense of humor-elements she wields artfully in her short, fabulous history. . . . She's driving with the top down. Bright Lights, Big City-the chick version."-People

"Absolutely heart-rending . . . a great piece of writing and an inspirational tale . . . Slow Motion illuminates the rocky road to integrity and maturity in graceful but wrenching steps."-Salon

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ISBN:
9780156008471
Author:
Shapiro, Dani
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
San Diego
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Ethnic Cultures
Subject:
Novelists, American
Subject:
Parents
Subject:
Ethnic Cultures - General
Subject:
Family
Subject:
Novelists, American -- 20th century.
Subject:
Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Edition Number:
1st Harvest ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Harvest Book
Series Volume:
034
Publication Date:
October 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
806x540x62 64
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