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Critically-acclaimed novelist (The Ruins of California and others), and biographer known for her penetrating portraits of charismatic individuals.
- Dog Man
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- The Ruins of California
But it captures the precariousness of growing up in...
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- My Last Movie Star
Dog Man: The Ruins of California: The Buddha From Brooklyn:...
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In her four books, Sherrill travels between fiction and...
- The Buddha From Brooklyn
As much as I wish otherwise, The Buddha from Brooklyn is not...
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- Dog Man
Martha Sherrill is an American journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist. She is the author of Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain.
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In her four books, Sherrill travels between fiction and nonfiction, gravitating to stories of outliers, pioneers and strong individuals. Her first book, The Buddha from Brooklyn (Random House, 2000), a work of nonfiction, is a study of religious devotion inside a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Poolesville, Maryland.
Martha Sherrill is the author of Dog Man (3.81 avg rating, 872 ratings, 152 reviews, published 2008), The Ruins of California (3.63 avg rating, 599 ratin...
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But it captures the precariousness of growing up in California in the 1970s, of being raised between two parents and two worlds, bohemian San Francisco and staid suburban L.A., and the improbable persona of my gorgeous, hilarious father. Voted one of the Best Books of the Year. – San Francisco Chronicle. – The Washington Post.
For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant.
