10/7/2023 0 Comments Tooth fairy book 1980s![]() "I'm wild about "The Tooth Fairy," a riveting and deeply moving creation. "With complete candor and insight Cliff maps the phases of his personal evolution throughout "The Tooth Fairy," using fragmentary bursts of text, the format, he says, of rawest honesty." -"The Henry Review" kitchen-sink drama reads both as War on Terror spoof and stark family epic. "A mix of surreal comedy and political satire." -"The New York Times" This is a hauntingly beautiful, lovely and strange, funny and sly, surreptitiously moving book." -David Rakoff, author of "Half Empty" "Winkie is a remarkable character, made vibrant and utterly convincing flesh (plush?) under Chase's masterful hand. " gripping and bizarre story of a teddy bear who gets involved in the war on terror. The most ambitious book of the year so far." -"Entertainment Weekly" "Bizarre, exhilarating, captivatingly creative, and extremely ridiculous. that it is no crime to indulge." -"The San Francisco Chronicle" ""Winkie" offers readers a sort of odd, outrageous delight. The grander life portrait emerging from the puzzle pieces is breathtaking and often heartrendingly poignant." -"Booklist " ![]() Lisa Cohen, author of "All We Know: Three Lives" His profound self-scrutiny, aphoristic elegance, lyrical gifts, and cracked hilarity unlock 'crucial but shrouded' moments of personal and collective history, and are a tonic. ""The Tooth Fairy" has arrived! Cliff Chase reinvents the memoir-thrillingly-with these stanzas in meditation, excruciation, and exultation. Matthew Sharpe, author of "Jonestown" and "The Sleeping Father" Like Montaigne, Clifford Chase is an endlessly curious, incisive, poignant chronicler of human nature, especially the one most local to him, his own." "Any aphorism of praise I could write about "The Tooth Fairy" would be trumped by your opening to a random page of it right now and reading the first few lines you put your finger on. "Coherence is a contrivance of any life story, Chase implies in his candid and insightful memoir some truths may be shared in words, others hidden between the lines." -"Kirkus Reviews"
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