Was
by Geoff Ryman
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THERE is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.
About this book
WAS is the story of Dorothy. Orphaned as a child in the 1870s, she goes to live in Kansas with her Aunty Em and Uncle Henry. They face drought and poverty. They face each other. Alone, abused, Dorothy meets an itinerant actor called Frank and inspires a masterpiece. From the settling of the West and the heyday of the Hollwywood studios to the glittering megalopolis of modern Los Angeles, WAS is the story of all our childhoods.
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Themes & subjects
FictionFrontier and pioneer life in fictionAIDS (Disease)Frontier and pioneer lifePatientsJudy garland in fiction
First published 1992Characters & people
Setting
KansasCaliforniaLos Angeles (Calif.)Los Angeles
About the author
Geoff Ryman
1951-05-09
**Geoff Ryman** is a Canadian living in London. He has published eight novels and two volumes of his own short fiction. He has also co-edited a collection of Canadian science fiction and edited an anthology of collaborations between fiction authors and scientists. His stories and novels have won fourteen awards, most recently a 2012 Nebula for the novelette “What We Found.” — [Alien Sex](/books/OL37962706M/)
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