The Western Coast: A Novel | Paula Fox, Frederick Busch

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	The Western Coast: A Novel Paula Fox, Frederick Busch, 2001 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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America and the catastrophic world of twentieth-century war, mass murder, and horror are the backdrop of this story of Annie Gianfala, a young woman who finds herself cast adrift in Hollywood with World War II looming. Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape.

Brave, Confused & Flying Solo

Probably only Doris Lessing captures the mystery of a young women's situation as well as Fox. Fox makes a novel of her biography. This allows her to explore the years _Borrowed Finery_ only sketched: her formative late teens, after a childhood of landing in the care of anyone who would take her. Her only support is the Left community in Hollywood, & kindly & quirky outcasts who exist by helping each other. This is in the last years of The Depression. Because she is pretty, she can usually find a meal when she is hungry. She lives as her childhood has taught her: she drifts along working at any arduous job she can find & living with any friend who will rent or give her space she can afford. There were not many paths open for a young woman, at the end of the 1930s, & the early 1940s. She marries a hypercritical philanderer who tells her he can structure her life & then abandons her. And she emerges strengthened through trial & freely admitted error.

It's a sharp book: worth reading & re-reading.

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