The Sweet Ballads of Charles Aznavour
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Just about the time “Mrs. Robinson” is making her way into our common pop-culture vocabulary, Annie is getting to know Christopher in Juan-les-Pins. Prepared in no way by her privileged American family for adult womanhood, and with the wreck of a failed marriage and lost children behind her, Annie has been adrift in the South of France when Christopher arrives, apparently from nowhere,
Their days and nights pass in indolence. Plenty of sun, of sea, of alcohol, and here and there a glimpse of Côte d’Azur backdrop. For a while, crowds of vacationers. On Annie’s part, reminiscences, daydreams, and attempts to fathom what others, especially 20-year-old Christopher, have in mind.
Annie’s circle of acquaintances includes another American expatriate, a respectable French family, a gay couple, university students, passersby, and a loving bartender. Ghosts from her past appear from time to time, as well as classical figures who haunt the Mediterranean. None, with the possible exception of the loving bartender, is of any assistance to Annie as her flesh gradually takes on appetite. She hasn¹t a clue.
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Marjorie Johnson¹s poems have appeared in several small, brave naked-light-bulb publications. She gives readings of her poetry in bookstores, coffee houses, libraries, garden clubs, summer camps and dormitory lounges at home and abroad.
About the Author
Marjorie Howard Johnson was born into a family of journalists in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned degrees at Swarthmore College, University of Illinois, and a PhD in Romance Literature from University of California at Berkeley. She has taught in colleges and independent secondary schools in this country and abroad and has won awards including Fulbright and NEH scholarships. After retirement and eight years with an adult literacy agency, she has been teaching with the Case Western Reserve University continuing education program.