At the Far End of Nowhere - Davis Merriman, Christine
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In this hauntingly unconventional, coming-of-age novel, young baby boomer Lissa Power struggles to grow up during the tumultuous 1950s, '60s, and '70s under the guidance of her father, Stouten -- a watchmaker, inventor, and mechanical wizard who is easily old enough to be her grandfather. When Lissa's mother dies, the reclusive old watchmaker remains determinded to protect his belvoed daughter from all harm. As Lissa matures, Stouten's authority becomes increasingly restrictive; his old-fashioned worldview chafes against the backdrop of fast-changing twentieth-century values. Here, At the end…mehr

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In this hauntingly unconventional, coming-of-age novel, young baby boomer Lissa Power struggles to grow up during the tumultuous 1950s, '60s, and '70s under the guidance of her father, Stouten -- a watchmaker, inventor, and mechanical wizard who is easily old enough to be her grandfather. When Lissa's mother dies, the reclusive old watchmaker remains determinded to protect his belvoed daughter from all harm. As Lissa matures, Stouten's authority becomes increasingly restrictive; his old-fashioned worldview chafes against the backdrop of fast-changing twentieth-century values. Here, At the end of nowhere, father and daughter weave fact with fiction, merging fantasy and reality to reveal a broader truth.
Autorenporträt
Christine DavisMerriman completed her MFA in Imaginative Writing/Fiction at UMass Amherst forty years ago. As an undergrad, she won Towson State University's John S. Lewis Fiction Award for a collection of short stories, and was eager to pursue a career in fiction. Then "life" intervened, with marriage, a son, divorce, a second marriage, and a thirty-year career at Johns Hopkins. In 2017, she retired, put down her technical writer's pen, and completed her debut novel, At the Far End of Nowhere. Christine and her husband live in a 1929 farmhouse in northern Baltimore County, Maryland.