![]() ![]() Need a gift sooner Send an Amazon Gift Card instantly by email or SMS. In 1990, Richard Benjamin directed a critically acclaimed feature film adaptation of the novel, starring Cher and Winona Ryder. Mermaids: Dann, Patty, Evans, Elizabeth: 9781721344369: : Books Books Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction Buy new: 15.99 List Price: 19.99 Save: 4.00 (20) 3.99 delivery January 6 - 13. ![]() After completing the redrafting of the novel, Dann found a literary agent who sold the novel to Ticknor and Fields, who published it in 1986. During the redrafting process, she changed the narrative perspective from third-person to first-person. In 1986, while working as a secretary for A&E, she began revising Mermaids, a period piece coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl set in the 1960s, a draft of which she had submitted as her MFA thesis. So begins this extraordinary first novel about one wild year in the life of fourteen-year-old Charlotte Flax, when she and. Background ĭann, a graduate of the University of Oregon and Columbia University, was working as a secretary in 1984, having abandoned her career aspiration of becoming a writer. It was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1990, starring Cher and Winona Ryder. ![]() Its plot follows a 14-year-old girl growing up with a wayward single mother in 1960s New England. Mermaids is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by American writer Patty Dann, published in 1986 by Ticknor and Fields. ![]()
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