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Misadventures - Sylvia Smith

 
Description: ISBN 1841952079 / Author: Sylvia Smith / Genre: Biography / Part memoir, part comic monologue, this is an ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes that, taken together, reveals the ups and downs of one woman's life. Relentlessly self-deprecating, Sylvia Smith's diary at first seems ... more
Misadventures - Sylvia Smith ... to relay the humdrum, everydayness of living, yet it steadily gains momentum as a darker undertone gathers force. Interspersed between humorous tales of first-date disasters and get-rich-quick schemes gone awry, the reader is thrown off-balance by the loss of sexual innocence and a pervading sense of loneliness.

Newest Review: ... although the book does progress in chronological order, starting with tales of her parents and grandparents and then stories ... more

 ... of her own childhood up to 1995. Had Sylvia married and had children, this would have been wonderful legacy to pass on to them. Some of the stories made me smile, some were embarrassing - the kind of thing you would tell only your closest friends and family. Some like the story of how Slyvia’s grandmother would throw herself down her entire staircase in the early stages of pregnancy, in the hope of losing her unborn children, made my mouth drop open. This book is like sitting down for a good chat or the old ...more

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Premium Review Misadventures - Sylvia Smith: Who is Sylvia Smith? (473 words)
by tonilouise - written on 24/11/01 (Very useful, 83 readings)
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Sylvia Smith is neither an actress or a popstar or a politician. She doesn’t have a starry story or a rags to riches tale to tell, she has not had an amazing career or done great charitable works, infact she has really done very little with her life apart from live - she is an ordinary, everyday person (although she once dated a member of the Dave Clarke 5 before they got famous and he left the band)! This is probably one of the strangest and most unusual books I have ever read. All the stories contained within are either something she has experienced or been told about – there is no real plot, adventure or love story, although the book does ...

 

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