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Life in an Ivory Tower: A Coming of Age Memoir
Sometimes the only way through is over the top.You're nineteen years old and you just landed on your own in 1970's San Francisco...
It’s a wildly eccentric place, perfect for exploring who you are, coming to terms with who you were, and creating who you want to be.
Trevor Oliver Taddich III isn't just trying to define who he is as an adult, he’s learning how to live outside the shadow of his influential family, as a gay man refusing to be closeted.
Enjoy these memoir snippets that capture the anguish of becoming a man. They will leave you roaring with laughter, remembering with fondness, and embracing the compassion of one of the most whimsical and wild decades of our time. Enjoy the entertainment as Martin turns Roman a clef on its ear and into a modern, cutting edge memoir with the frivolity and panache of a drag queen revue.
Read Life in an Ivory Tower the first book in the San The Luxury of Eccentricity series, where San Francisco is as much a character as Trevor Oliver Taddich III.
It’s a wildly eccentric place, perfect for exploring who you are, coming to terms with who you were, and creating who you want to be.
Trevor Oliver Taddich III isn't just trying to define who he is as an adult, he’s learning how to live outside the shadow of his influential family, as a gay man refusing to be closeted.
Enjoy these memoir snippets that capture the anguish of becoming a man. They will leave you roaring with laughter, remembering with fondness, and embracing the compassion of one of the most whimsical and wild decades of our time. Enjoy the entertainment as Martin turns Roman a clef on its ear and into a modern, cutting edge memoir with the frivolity and panache of a drag queen revue.
Read Life in an Ivory Tower the first book in the San The Luxury of Eccentricity series, where San Francisco is as much a character as Trevor Oliver Taddich III.
316 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 16, 2020
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About the author
William Martin
357 books394 followersMeet 'the king of the historical thriller' (Providence Journal). William Martin is a New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, an award-winning PBS documentary, book reviews, magazine articles, and a cult classic horror movie, too. He is best known for his historical fiction, which has chronicled the lives of the great and the anonymous in American history while bringing to life legendary American locations, from Cape Cod to the Sierra foothills during the California Gold Rush. His latest, December '41, sweeps us across America in the weeks after Pearl Harbor and has been hailed as "propulsive," "cinematic,' and "riveting" by critics. He was the recipient of the prestigious 2005 New England Book Award, given to "an author whose body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region." And in 2015, the USS CONSTITUTION Museum gave him the Samuel Eliot Morison Award. He has three grown children and lives near Boston with his wife.
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September 21, 2022
Life in a ivory tower: a coming of age memoir by William martin. I really enjoyed this book very much I'm looking forward to book 3 movie on if you love San Francisco William martin will make it come alive again just the way you remember it....
October 14, 2022
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Life in an Ivory Tower - Excellent book cannot wait to read Book 2. Starting Book 2 immediately.
Life in an Ivory Tower - Excellent book cannot wait to read Book 2. Starting Book 2 immediately.
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