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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1998 spine is lightly creased, hint of edge and corner wear, ADVANCE READING COPY, FIRST EDITION MANDY SAYER'S FIRST NOVEL, MOOD INDIGO, WON THE AUSTRALIAN / VOGEL AWARD IN 1989; HER LATEST, THE CROSS, WAS A FINALIST FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST CRIME NOVEL AND HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE 1997 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD. SHE HAS ALSO BEEN NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST YOUNG AUSTRALIAN NOVELISTS BY THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (more information)

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Ballantine Books, 1998. Hardcover. Brand New. 9.80 x 6.80 x 1.20. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 22.4 oz. I danced and danced because the neon light across the road had just blinked on, because it was the middle of spring, because I was twenty-one, because my father was playing beside me. . . .In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. Gerry Sayer was a jazz drummer, a beguiling Irish charmer with a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. Mandy grew up captivated by his outrageous tales even after he left the family for good and her mother descended into the distance of drink. When her siblings failed him by rejecting the bohemian performing life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in his stories, part of the only life he really loved. So she learned to tap-dance, and they set off together to satisfy their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world--New York.Driven by their dream of making it big, Mandy and Gerry arrived in the city with no place to stay and only costumes to their names. They became part of the thrilling, precarious world of street performers--jugglers, magicians, fire-eaters, dancers--who eked out their livings at the mercy of the elements, the cops, complaining neighbors, and lurking thieves. In cinematic detail, Sayer tells of the first exhilarating season in New York City, earning $200 a night on Columbus Avenue; offsetting the physical pain of endless performance with the incomparable rush that accompanied it; the long, difficult winter in New Orleans, surviving on avocados and raw vegetables in unheated apartments; and their final unforgettable return to New York. Entwined with this singular story of a buskers life is the deeper, more intimate story of Mandys transformation from a girl searching for her fathers love into a woman who could invent her own language and find her own voice. For ultimately Dreamtime Alice is a triumphant record of a young woman's discovery that she could create her own story at last. -- In this memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. Gerry Sayer was a jazz drummer, a beguiling Irish charmer with a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. Mandy grew up captivated by his outrageous tales even after he left the family for good and her mother descended into the distance of drink. When her siblings failed him by rejecting the bohemian performing life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in his stories, part of the only life he really loved. So she learned to tap dance, and they set off together to satisfy their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world - New York. Driven by their dream of making it big, Mandy and Gerry arrived in the city with no place to stay and only costumes to their names. They became part of the thrilling, precarious world of street performers - jugglers, magicians, fire-eaters, dancers - who eked out their livings at the mercy of the elements, the cops, complaining neighbors, and lurking thieves. Sayer tells of the first exhilarating season in New York City, earning $200 a night on Columbus Avenue; offsetting the physical pain of endless performance with the incomparable rush that accompanied it; the long, difficult winter in New Orleans, surviving on avocados and raw vegetables in unheated apartments; and their final unforgettable return to New York. Entwined with this singular story of a busker's life is the deeper, more intimate story of Mandy's transformation from a girl searching for her father's love into a woman who could invent her own language and find her own voice. For ultimately Dreamtime Alice is atriumphant record of a young woman's discovery that she could create her own story at last. Sayer's second work, her first American publication, is both a personal memoir and an exploration of self partially drawn from her experience tap dancing. The author recounts her life on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her musician father, providing a backdrop for the story of her search for love. Ms. Sayer was named one of Australia's 10 best young novelists by the Sydney Morning Herald. The character of Mandy has a certain charm....[T]here is magic in the way that Mandy, nearly drowning in desperate circumstances, bobs back up again and again. -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Penelope Rowlands (04/19/1998) -- This memoir is about finding that magic in the voice of expression. It is an incredibly vivid tale, filled with gutsy ingenuity and the stark range of emotion that Sayer survives. Her will to be heard may be tap-danced to her father's drum but it echoes clear off the page. -- Dupuy -- ...what succeeds best is her [the author's] depiction of the cracked kaleidoscope of American urban life, [she and her father were street musicians in New Orleans and Manhattan] along with the place she so precariously achieved there...With this memoir of her half-horrid, half-thrilling trip through the looking glass, Mandy Sayer at last claims her rightful place as the top-billed star of her own life story. -- Harris. . (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1998. In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. Gerry Sayer was a jazz drummer, a beguiling Irish charmer with a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. When her siblings failed her father by rejecting the bohemian performing life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in his stories, part of the only life he really loved. So she learned to tap dance, and they set off together to satisfy their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world--New York. They became part of the thrilling, precarious world of street performers--jugglers, magicians, fire-eaters, dancers--who eked out their livings at the mercy of the elements, the cops, complaining neighbors, and lurking thieves. Entwined with this singular story of a busker's life is the deeper, more intimate story of Mandy's transformation from a girl searching for her father's love into a woman who could invent her own language and find her own voice. DREAMTIME ALICE is a triumphant record of a young woman's self-discovery, the discovery that she could create her own story at last. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.. ISBN: 0345423321. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CHILDREN ALCOHOLICS FATHERS DAUGHTERS PROBLEM FAMILIES STREET MUSIC MUSICIANS FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS FATHERHOOD FOLK TRADITIONAL SELF HELP ADULT SUBSTANCE ABUSERS. (more information)

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Mississauga, ON, Canada: Ballantine Books of Canada, 1998. 386 pages. Bright glossy book with just a small amount of evidence of having been read. A little corner wear and a small spine reading crease. Two laid in First Look bank postcard blank. Double spaced manuscript format. A letter bound in from the editor extolling the virtues. Award winning Australian novelist's story of the years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. It is the life of a busker. In this memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the years she spent performing on the streets with her father, Gerry Sayer who was a jazz drummer, a beguiling Irish charmer with a million stories and an insatiable love for jam sessions and all-night parties. Mandy grew up captivated by his outrageous tales even after he left the family for good and her mother descended into the distance of drink. When her siblings failed him by rejecting the bohemian performing life, Mandy saw her chance to become a character in his stories, part of the only life he really loved. So she learned to tap dance, and they set off together to satisfy their grand ambitions on the toughest stage in the world - New York. This memoir by Ms. Sayer, who has been named one of the ten best young Australian novelists, is not only an account of the culture of street performing but a deeper story of her transformation from a girl searching for her father's love into a woman who could find her own voice. The people portrayed in this book are real and the events described took place but fictional names and descriptive detail have sometimes been used. Dreamtime Alice is filled with vivid, gorgeous, musical writing and while it invites comparison to THE LIAR'S CLUB and ANGELA'S ASHES, it is an absolute original.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6" x 9". Unedited Manuscript Pages. (more information)

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New York: Ballantine Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree F/Fine 1stEd DATED & ENSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on tp; not marked-in, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 1.2 x 6.8 x 9.8 inches; 333 pages; From Library Journal In this memoir, Australian novelist Sayer (Blind Luck, Univ. Of Queensland, 1994) recounts a young girl's dream to be part of her father's world. A jazz drummer who lives only for his art, Gerry Sayer is an absent father and an indifferent husband. Fleeing an alcoholic mother and her abusive mate, Mandy joins her dad to pursue a career as street performers in New York City and New Orleans. Sayer writes in graceful, often poetic prose of her tap dancing to the beat of Gerry's drum. The thrills of performing with her father, however, are dampened by the allure of drugs, fear of sexual exploitation, battles with thieves and blackmailers, and dreary nights in fleabags. Sayer's bittersweet journey leads finally to love and allows her to view herself and her family relationships in a new light. ? William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib. , CUNY Copyright 1998 Reed. From Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Australian/Vogel Award (1989) for her first novel, Mood Indigo, and recently named one of the ten Best Young Australian Novelists by the Sydney Morning Herald, Sayer makes her American debut with this compelling memoir of her experiences while living on the edge with her father as a busker in the magical, menacing underworlds of New Orleans and the streets of New York. Sayer's father was a jazz drummer in Australia. His intermittent here-one-minute-gone-the- next presence and his legends of excess while anywhere but beside his unstable family drove Mandy to seek him out. Together they set out for the streets of New York. Tap dancing to his drum riffs, negotiating his down-times of alcohol and drugs as well as the up-times of cocaine-indu ced ambition and frenzied visions of success, Sayer ``became a lodger in my father's castle . . . Surrendering . . . To the indomitable architecture of his imagination. '' Her narrative voice is vivacious and exact, no matter how grim the tales she tells. There are many points in the book when Sayer finds her younger self tempted to undermine her artistic voice in favor of her father's pull toward self-destruction. Her poetic style captures the stench of the flophouse, the grinding ache of feet that have tapped the sheen off the pavement, and the reality of life for a young girl who continues to yearn, blindly, for her father's love. Love does indeed save her, but it is self-love, her determination to finally and forever distance herself from her father's dreamtime dance. She becomes at last ``her own magician, '' finding a liberating power in the magic of words. This memoir is about finding magic in the voice of expression. It is an incredibly vivid tale, filled with gutsy ingenuity and the stark range of emotion that Sayer survives. Her will to be heard may be tap-danced to her fathers drum but it echoes clear off the page. -- ©1998, Kirkus. ; Signed by Author . (more information)

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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1998. In this vivid, seductive, gorgeously written memoir, Mandy Sayer recounts the fascinating years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father. Entwined with this singular story of a busker's life is the deeper, more intimate story of Mandy's transformationfrom a girl searching for her father's love into a woman who could invent her own language and find her own voice. 333pp. Signed by Author on title page.. ISBN: 0345423321. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth and Hardboard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FATHERS DAUGHTERS STREET MUSIC MUSICIANS. (more information)

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