

Dann has created a young girl who accepts the unkindness of the mad universe in which she''s whirling and takes it on with a savage glee.Ĭharlotte Flax is like no one you have ever met - and someone you know very well. Mermaids Hardcover Januby Patty Dann (Author) 53 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 4.95 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 13.71 16 Used from 3.84 Paperback 4.95 3 Used from 2.98 1 New from 4.95 MP3 CD 10.52 4 New from 9. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 3.1 Casting 3. It is based on Patty Danns 1986 novel of the same name. She''s smitten with the shy young caretaker at the convent at the top of the hill. Mermaids is a 1990 American family comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin which was released on Decemby Orion Pictures. Charlotte''s main ambition in life is to become a saint, preferably martyred, though she''s Jewish. Flax is a woman who wears polka-dot dresses and serves hors d''oeuvres for dinner every night, and Kate is a child who basically wants to be a fish.Īnd then there''s Charlotte, who in Patty Dann''s hands, is transformed into a young woman of infinite whim and variety.

Flax into a sleepy 1960''s Massachusetts town. So begins this extraordinary first novel about one wild year in the life of 14-year-old Charlotte Flax, when she and her sister Kate move with Mrs. Flax was happiest when she was leaving a place, but I wanted to stay put long enough to fall down crazy and hear the Word of God.
