Word: twinkly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story is a kind of grade-school fable told in the first person by the novel's nine-year-old heroine. The little girl's nickname is Twink. She is also nicknamed Frog, Dandelion, Grasshopper and Mrs. Nijinsky. Twink has a mother, Mama Girl, and a father, Papa Boy. Unfortunately, Mama Girl and Papa Boy are divorced, and Papa Boy lives in Paris with Twink's brother, Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Cause of the split, it seems, is that Mama Girl cannot put her mind to being a Wife Woman when her heart is set on being...
...Twink and Mama Girl head for the bright lights of Manhattan, settle in servants' quarters at the Pierre Hotel, eat at the Automat, and feed the pigeons in Central Park. When Mama Girl's multimillionaire friend Gladys DuBarry, who suffers from "polio of the soulio," offers to house mother and daughter in a penthouse suite, Mama Girl proudly throws the DuBarry woman out on her earrings. But Mama Girl has to admit that all is not well: "I'm the most beautiful girl at every party; I meet all the producers and directors and writers and actors...
Then a kindly, grey-haired producer jumps up and says he's got to have Twink in his play: "The only people who can play children are children." The kindly producer's kindly playwright writes in a fat part for Mama Girl, and at the smash New York opening, who should turn up but Papa Boy and Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Curtain. Clinch...