"dear daisy," has everything -- the loss of innocence, the pride, abundance, confusion and thrill on the road to young adulthood -- and every child's wish to be loved, understood, and made to feel special, wanted and protected. "dear daisy," brilliantly illustrates the universal truths of life -- all it's joy, sadness, triumphs, tragedy, love and our shared rights of passage. it also evokes a time long ago -- yet not-so long ago -- vividly etched for the reader to remember or relive for the first time.
"dear daisy," shimmers in its poetic narrative: beautifully etching a world lost forever -- if it ever did indeed exist. it is a gorgeous mosaic spanning the early 50's and 60's in jerry marshall's small (and small-minded) town through his heady, celebrity-filled but self-destructive life in showbiz in the wild days of 1980's manhattan. it's all brought to exquisite life in this magnificent book.
"dear daisy," presents the best of us (and our foibles and fears) seen through the world through the eyes of a sensitive, unique, highly gifted, innocently (and not-so) defiant child who, in these pages, steadily (if sometimes stumbles) in his growth into manhood -- but finding himself, being true to himself and his own unique, creative, larger-than-life vision.
few will not be able to share marshall's increased wonder and sadness as the world he discovers is increasingly complex, contradictory, on the brink of tragedy and yet, ultimately, a place of love, healing and acceptance of self.
"dear daisy," is a true original.
coyne steven sanders
author of the critically
acclaimed bestsellers:
"desilu: the story of lucille ball
and desi arnaz"
and
"rainbows end: the judy garland show"