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Chanel Bonfire will be released on November 12, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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Chanel Bonfire will be released on January 08, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
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Chanel Bonfire is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Glendale News Press, April 4, 2013
...In January 1969, when Wendy Lawless and her sister were living in New York's famed Dakota building, their mother swallowed a bottle of pills and called her husband — their stepfather — at his...
Aspen Daily News, March 8, 2013
...Wendy Lawless’s mother, Georgann, was a narcissistic drunk in designer clothes. She could be charming and seductive one moment and horribly cruel the next. For all of the nightmare that...
USA Today, February 27, 2013
...and cover all shades in between. Story HighlightsLike the PBS series? Read volume 2 of 'Call the Midwife'Wendy Lawless stokes the 'Bonfire'Rapper and raconteur Eddie Huang gets 'Fresh'Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse By Jennifer Worth Ecco,...
Knox News Sentinel, February 13, 2013
...by Margaret Wrinkle NONFICTION nThe Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life by Margaret Roach nChanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless nThe Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch nNaked...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2013
...of pills and called my stepfather at his hotel to say good-bye. "Chanel Bonfire," a memoir by Wendy Lawless There you are in the picture looking chubby and pompous, and it makes me remember how you told me that time you were afraid of fat people. ...
Huffington Post, January 7, 2013
...yet another light on my biographical quandary. In this case, it is a book by an actress named Wendy Lawless, who I knew causally for nine weeks in 1988 when she played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Hartford Stage, where I was the press rep. In...
Book Reporter, January 5, 2013
...By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she’d known for quite some time that she didn’t have a normal mother. But that didn’t stop her from wanting one... Georgeann Rea didn...
NPR, May 30, 2013
...glamorous woman living like a grown-up Eloise in New York, to the detriment of her daughters, there's Wendy Lawless' fizzy Chanel Bonfire. But as far as daughter-mother tell-alls go, my favorite this year is Patricia Volk's charming , a refreshing...
RoadRunner, May 10, 2013
...The final was scheduled for Saturday, where Simmonds would come up against top seed Timea Babos of Hungary. This was the first time a South African made it to the final of the women’s event in Jabavu, Soweto. "It was a tough game, with really tough......
Boston Phoenix, January 16, 2013
...mother who uses an ax to chop down your sister's bedroom door. Such tragicomedy was typical of Wendy Lawless's teen years in Cambridge and Belmont; now her bizarre upbringing has become fodder for her new memoir out this month, Chanel Bonfire. "I...
RoadRunner, January 16, 2013
...mother who uses an ax to chop down your sister's bedroom door. Such tragicomedy was typical of Wendy Lawless's teen years in Cambridge and Belmont; now her bizarre upbringing has become... Full Article at The Phoenix...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 2013
...of pills and called my stepfather at his hotel to say good-bye. "Chanel Bonfire," a memoir by Wendy Lawless There you are in the picture looking chubby and pompous, and it makes me remember how you told me that time you were afraid of fat people. ...
Huffington Post, January 7, 2013
...yet another light on my biographical quandary. In this case, it is a book by an actress named Wendy Lawless, who I knew causally for nine weeks in 1988 when she played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Hartford Stage, where I was the press rep. In...
Book Reporter, January 5, 2013
...By the time Wendy Lawless turned 17, she’d known for quite some time that she didn’t have a normal mother. But that didn’t stop her from wanting one... Georgeann Rea didn...
