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Benway, Robin. Audrey, wait.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
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May 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Kliatt. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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BENWAY, Robin. Audrey, wait. Penguin, Razor-bill. 313p. c2008. 978-1-59514-191-0. $16.99. S
This is about popular music, paparazzi, popular culture--everything else you can think of that's fleeting, but obsessively interesting. Audrey's boyfriend, a struggling musician, writes a song about their breakup, called "Audrey, Wait," which climbs up in the charts and becomes a number one hit across the nation, across the world. Since Audrey, our hero, is the subject of the song, she becomes an instant celebrity herself, with high school classmates selling info to the pop media. Everything she does is fodder for the gossip magazines. Cell phones can take pictures, and she doesn't ...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part 20
The Washington Post;
June 14, 1993 ;
BOB LEVEY;
754 words
...Only once before had Audrey Ghizzoni phoned me, and that call had...of the line. "I'm not doing so well," Audrey said, her voice a little weaker and slower...terminally ill with emphysema in May 1986, Audrey has hung on for more than seven years...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part Nine
The Washington Post;
June 24, 1987 ;
Bob Levey;
730 words
......Jeremiah Ghizzoni-Roper is the grandson Audrey Ghizzoni wasn't supposed to see. But when he was born in Florida on May 21, Audrey was there on the Arlington end of...later. "He was 9 pounds, 4 ounces," Audrey said. "A big boy. Everybody's fine...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part 19
The Washington Post;
May 5, 1992 ;
BOB LEVEY;
787 words
......presidential nomination, the phone at Audrey Ghizzoni's bedside rang. It was a Virginia...didn't like Clinton. My person was Harkin," Audrey said. "But the most remarkable part of...even when you're in the shape I'm in." Audrey Ghizzoni continues to fade a little, drift...
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Audrey's Final Months: Conclusion
The Washington Post;
May 1, 1995 ;
Bob Levey;
787 words
...When Audrey Ghizzoni finally died, she didn't sink...terminally ill with emphysema in May, 1986, Audrey Ghizzoni defied doctors, hospitals and...April 21, she succumbed at the age of 70. Audrey had been in and out of Arlington Hospital...
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TYCOON IN BABY AGONY; Soup boss Audrey has miscarriage.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);
September 2, 2004 ;
430 words
...Byline: By Charlie Gall SOUP tycoon Audrey Baxter has suffered a miscarriage. Audrey, 43, announced in June that she was expecting a...at Baxters' Fochabers HQ in Moray of her loss. Audrey - reputed to be worth pounds 60million - had a...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part 15
The Washington Post;
June 15, 1989 ;
BOB LEVEY;
765 words
......use to go surfing. But it is really Audrey Ghizzoni's new lifeline. Bedridden for the past three years with emphysema, Audrey Ghizzoni has learned to wriggle out...The sliding board is the means. But Audrey's attitude toward herself is the spur...
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Having twins cost me my job; Audrey Brown thought she had the perfect...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);
December 26, 1998 ;
White, Donna;
787 words
......dots on the hospital scanner ... but to Audrey Brown, they made her life complete. As...the only thing missing was children. But Audrey could not have guessed the price she would...work should be a much happier affair than Audrey's. Audrey, who was a credit controller...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part 18
The Washington Post;
March 5, 1991 ;
BOB LEVEY;
746 words
...On the phone, Audrey Ghizzoni had said that "there's not much...titmice. But there is a major difference in Audrey Ghizzoni. She has accepted the fact that...bizarre, it won't to anyone who has followed Audrey's story in this column over the last five...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part 17
The Washington Post;
July 13, 1990 ;
BOB LEVEY;
754 words
......was just getting too tired," explained Audrey Ghizzoni. "To come home every day and...else needs doing." So two Fridays ago, Audrey's 69-year-old husband, John Ghizzoni...three years, suddenly everything has. Audrey Ghizzoni is still incurably ill with emphysema...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part Ten
The Washington Post;
October 2, 1987 ;
Bob Levey;
768 words
......last week, Jack Ghizzoni gave his mother Audrey a goodbye kiss. Then he and his fiance...San Francisco. Everything changed for Audrey Ghizzoni the moment her son left home...help his father John care for 61-year-old Audrey. But Audrey has confounded her doctors...
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A lifetime in the shadows of war; Audrey was born to the sound of crowds...
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);
November 1, 1998 ;
765 words
...AUDREY Sherwin was born at the very moment war-ravaged Europe...again. It had been, they vowed, the war to end all wars. Audrey came into the world at 11am - the precise time that history...the late Queen Victoria, but her mother loved the name Audrey. So she was christened Audrey Victoria Hayes. ...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part 21
The Washington Post;
May 18, 1994 ;
BOB LEVEY;
787 words
......the same guests - and the same husband. Audrey Ghizzoni has remarried John Ghizzoni...terminally ill? "We did it just to celebrate," Audrey said, as she lay in the bed that has been...odds - phrases that have been attached to Audrey Ghizzoni's name for a long time. Declared...
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Audrey's Final Months: Part 16
The Washington Post;
December 13, 1989 ;
BOB LEVEY;
774 words
......walkway and a rather high step in front of Audrey Ghizzoni's house in North Arlington. Now...wooden ramp sits on top of the concrete, so Audrey's wheelchair can glide up or down. There...There used to be nothing but doom on Audrey Ghizzoni's horizon. Now there are visits...
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Audrey's garden: Four years after an accident changed the lives of...
Charleston Daily Mail;
June 6, 2002 ;
MONICA OROSZ;
671 words
...DAILY MAIL STAFF ONE day, Audrey McElroy was a lively 8-year-old girl...warm February evening four years ago, Audrey's life changed in an instant - the time...passing train. The horrible head injuries Audrey suffered that day made her a different...
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Andy is so smitten..Audrey flies over for secret nights with him at...
The People (London, England);
February 27, 2000 ;
787 words
......half his age, the Sunday People can reveal. Audrey Rimbault, 23 - a golf fanatic like the Prince...was just a smokescreen for his romance with Audrey. Love-struck Andrew has been whisking blonde Audrey off for their hush-hush dates for three months...
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