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Bigfoot Dreams (1997)

di Francine Prose

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From the "wonderfully quirky imagination" of the New York Times-bestselling author: A tabloid reporter is surprised to find magic in a mundane world (The New York Times).   Vera Pearl is a staff writer for This Week, a supermarket tabloid which trades in the bizarre and the absurd--though rarely, if ever, the true. No one is better than Vera at imagining these weird, wild stories, because more than anything, she wants them to be real.   During one particularly slow week, Vera takes a photograph snapped by a colleague showing two children selling lemonade outside their Brooklyn home and drafts up a scoop to fit the snap, the story of two enterprising children who have discovered--and are profiting off of--the literal Fountain of Youth. By astonishing coincidence--or perhaps by magic--the details she concocts about the children (except for the properties of the tap water) turn out to be true, and hundreds of miracle-seekers descend upon this modern Lourdes-in-Flatbush.   The resulting lawsuit sends this master of hoaxes into a very real tailspin: she is fired, her estranged husband flies in from Los Angeles to whisk away their precocious young daughter, and Vera takes off for Arizona to attend a meeting of the Cryptobiological Society, hoping for evidence of their furry quarry, Bigfoot. Just one glance, and Vera's longing to finally transcend the quotidian may come true . . .  … (altro)
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Vera Perl is an unhappy thirty-something reporter with a troublesome ex, overwhelming parents and a precocious ten year old daughter. She works for a tabloid which carries stories on the stranger side of life – Loch Ness monsters, living dinosaurs, conspiracy theories, cancer cures and of course, Vera’s favourite subject – Bigfoot. After being shown a photo of two children at a Lemonade stand, Vera invents a tap water fountain of youth at a suburban family’s home which somehow seems to come true, and she finds herself in trouble. So begins a frenetic cross country journey where Vera attempts to converge reality with imagination.

Prose is an exhilarating writer. Her impressive imagination is evident on every page. There are laugh-aloud moments in this book which are nicely balanced with sympathetic passages and exciting action. ( )
  judylou | Jan 2, 2014 |
I enjoyed this novel, whose central character writes imaginative fiction for a tabloid newspaper. She writes about Bigfoot, about appliances that have suddenly gone berserk, about boys raised by cats, and about magical things that probably won’t ever happen. Only occasionally they do happen. What’s up with that? This book is also about friendship, New York City, living with a pre-teen daughter, and bottoming out. ( )
  astrologerjenny | Apr 24, 2013 |
Vera makes up feature stories for a tabloid about Bigfoot stealing cigarettes and discovering the fountain of youth in a suburban lemonade stand. But when she gets fired, she must deal with the unresolved problems of her own life – her relationships with a possibly ex-husband, her daughter, her parents and her oldest friend. This leads her on a quest for her own personal Bigfoot and her own personal happiness. ( )
  sturlington | Oct 27, 2011 |
Possibly one of the worse books I have ever had the displeasure to read. ( )
  lesleydawn | Dec 5, 2007 |
Recommended by Maryka.
  rfewell | Jan 27, 2009 |
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From the "wonderfully quirky imagination" of the New York Times-bestselling author: A tabloid reporter is surprised to find magic in a mundane world (The New York Times).   Vera Pearl is a staff writer for This Week, a supermarket tabloid which trades in the bizarre and the absurd--though rarely, if ever, the true. No one is better than Vera at imagining these weird, wild stories, because more than anything, she wants them to be real.   During one particularly slow week, Vera takes a photograph snapped by a colleague showing two children selling lemonade outside their Brooklyn home and drafts up a scoop to fit the snap, the story of two enterprising children who have discovered--and are profiting off of--the literal Fountain of Youth. By astonishing coincidence--or perhaps by magic--the details she concocts about the children (except for the properties of the tap water) turn out to be true, and hundreds of miracle-seekers descend upon this modern Lourdes-in-Flatbush.   The resulting lawsuit sends this master of hoaxes into a very real tailspin: she is fired, her estranged husband flies in from Los Angeles to whisk away their precocious young daughter, and Vera takes off for Arizona to attend a meeting of the Cryptobiological Society, hoping for evidence of their furry quarry, Bigfoot. Just one glance, and Vera's longing to finally transcend the quotidian may come true . . .  

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