Dress Codes: Of 3 Girlhoods: My Mother's, My Father's and Mine

Howey, Noelle

ISBN 10: 1860499902 ISBN 13: 9781860499906

Verlag: Virago, 2003

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With edgy humour and sensitivity, Howey challenges our beliefs about what constitutes a 'normal (family’ )

HELLO ('A real daytime talk show story but rendered intelligently, wryly and with no small amount of insights by Howey herself, as she unravels the changing family dynamics and confronts society’s prejudices in print.’ )

Carson Howat, SCOTSMAN ('Howey’s writing is refreshing in that it is never sensationalistic.’ )

Mark Gallagher, IRISH EXAMINER (‘Told with great wisdom and understanding, Howey keeps her story light-hearted, honest and amusing to create a life-affirming insight into the lives of three women and their search for acceptance.’ )

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I have a dad who is a woman, much like me, but with better legs...' Growing up, Noelle Howey hardly spoke to her distant, bad-tempered father. 'After coming home, he'd mix up a twelve-consonant vodka and orange juice and then sleep, watch TV, drink, and sleep again. Occasionally, he'd shake up the routine by eating a salad.' Instead Noelle drew all her comfort from her wonderful, tomboyish mother. Then, when she reaches 14 Noelle finally discovers her father's secret. Dick Howey likes to wear women's clothing. In fact, he wants to be a woman. For years he has hidden his true nature behind a brusque, masculine persona. Now his secret is out, everything changes. Noelle, used to being ignored, has to deal with a father who wants to be involved in her life. Hard enough to get used to, but even worse, because of her father's hormone treatment, they're going through adolescence together... With wit, honesty, hard-learned wisdom, and absolutely no self-pity, Noelle Howey tells her family's extraordinary story and explores that most universal of truths: that you cannot enjoy love and happiness until you accept who you really are.

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• Verlag: Virago
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1860499902
• ISBN 13: 9781860499906
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352