Steve,
Will we be visiting the CLIPPER GIRLS and Cedar Hills this year?
Jan
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| Author: | Tasmaniac [ Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
To keep everyone up to speed with this project, Gary is very close to sending CLIPPER GIRLS our way. Conny Valentina will provide artwork as Gary loved the work she did for our edition of Gary's IN THE MIDNIGHT MUSEUM. Will post news as it comes. Steve. Synopsis, Evan Tanner, a single father, receives a call from the nursing home where his mother (who everyone assumes suffers from dementia) lives, informing him that his mother has become too distruptive in the past few weeks and they're kicking her out: she keeps screaming in the night about the smell of cigars and crates by the door and someone who 'warned' her not to go to work '...that day.' Evan takes his mother in, much to his daughter's dismay. As the days infold, both Evan and his daughter awake in the middle of the night to hear the voices of children coming from downstairs. When each investigates, they find the front room filled with the ghosts of dirty, undernourished children doing piecework sewing - buttons on coats, repairing socks, hemming dresses, etc. Evan and his daughter soon realize that Evan's mother only seems to sleep peacefully when these apparitions appear. Evan's mother was a child laborer back in the early 1900's, who was one of the few children to survive a massive fire at a Cedar Hill sweatshop mill where she was employed as a 'clipper girl' - the children whose job it was to snip the stray bits of thread from the dresses and blouses made in the sweatshops. Evan's mother isn't suffering from dementia but rather survivor's guilt, and that guilt has at last manifested itself in the apparitions of the ghosts of the poverty-striken children with whom she used to work - and who didn't make it out of the fire. The fire was deemed an accident, but Evan's mother and the 'Clipper Girls' know better, and the man responsible for the fire - who smoked cigars as he stomped up and down the sweatshop line - is not only alive and well, but flourishing in his successful family business. And Evan, his daughter, his mother, and the restless spirits of the girls killed in the factory fire, cannot rest until there's justice. |
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| Author: | Scott Tyson [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
Gary is one of my favourite authors, of course I'm in. In the Midnight Museum is one of my all time favourite novellas. I'm in for a lettered and limited, Steve. (You're sending me broke, you know that, don't you?) |
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| Author: | Tasmaniac [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:34 am ] |
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| Author: | Scott Tyson [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:36 am ] |
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| Author: | carnifex74 [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:43 am ] |
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This is a book that I really look forward to. I'm with Scott in thinking Braunbeck is a rgeat writer with a deep bag of tricks and skill that he uses in all his work. |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
Does a limited mean the regular trade editions? Tt |
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| Author: | Tasmaniac [ Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:05 pm ] |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
Steve, will this be a membership release? And when do you think this one will be coming our way? You are the greatest, a new Pic and a new Braunbeck...it doesn't get any better than that. Ttzuma |
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| Author: | Tasmaniac [ Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
| Author: | dancingwith2leftfeet [ Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
Steve, Will we be visiting the CLIPPER GIRLS and Cedar Hills this year? Jan
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| Author: | Tasmaniac [ Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
| Author: | dancingwith2leftfeet [ Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
Thanks Steve. 2010 is going to be providing some fun reads.  Jan
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| Author: | RobertAnt [ Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
Just so you know... before reading the synopsis, I assumed Gary A. Braunbeck's Clipper Girls was going to be about: A) Psycho Los Angeles Clippers cheerleaders or B) Crazy female hairdressers I would have read either of those, but I am VERY happy that I was wrong. |
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| Author: | Tasmaniac [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:40 pm ] |
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| Author: | Tasmaniac [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
I'm hearing some very exciting news people! I'll keep you posted, Steve. |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CLIPPER GIRLS - GARY A BRAUNBECK |
My spine is tingling and my hair is standing on end! I hope it's what I think its going to be.... Tt |
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