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Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir

Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir

Gildiner, Catherine

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ISBN10: 014200040X
ISBN13: 9780142000403
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Feb 26 2002
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.48 Depth: 7.34
Language: English
Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, New York, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls. Divorce is unheard of, mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon, and television has only just arrived.

At the tender age of four, Cathy accompanies Roy, the deliveryman at her father's pharmacy, on his routes. She shares some of their memorable deliveries-sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe (in town filming Niagara), sedatives to Mad Bear, a violent Tuscarora chief, and fungus cream to Warty, the gentle operator of the town dump. As she reaches her teenage years, Cathy's irrepressible spirit spurs her from dangerous sled rides that take her too close to the Falls to tipsy dances with the town priest.

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