Ex- Verdun girl ,update on Her First Book "Loddy Dah! "

Dolly has been working on her book for a longtime & she never quit , writers face a lot of negativity whether it be by publishers or people who figure "oh ya sure ,your writing a book......" Well Dolly didn't let any of that stop her & she now will be appearing at the Montreal Blue Metropolis  for the official Launch of her Book " Loddy Dah! "
 Read her book folks , for Montrealers who lived through the 60's they will no doubt be able to relate to the book & it's story.........................Congrats Dolly now sign those books....Cheers ! LesF

Here is a screen shot all about the book.........let's all support a fellow Montrealer

Loddy-Dah

Dolly Dennis

Guernica Editions, Spring 2014

310 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550718317

ISBN10: 1550718312

English

$25.00 Canada, $25.00 US

       

We follow Loddy and the troupe from The Garage Theatre as their lives unfold against the backdrop of political events in Montreal starting with EXPO 67 and ending in 1970 with the October Crisis. With the city as background, Loddy-Dah explores issues of self-identity and self-acceptance, the magic of friendship and love, and the power of resilience in the face of adversity.

When Loddy moved into the three-storey walk-up near McGill University, she painted her basement apartment the colour of a boiled egg, and then for the hell of it, stencilled a wide China Red semi-circle across the living room wall, top to bottom, and called it the Rising Sun. Red. Her mother, Alma, hated red. She said it was the colour of communists and blood -- the colour of pain. So Loddy wore only red.

Set against the political tumult of the 1960s, Loddy-Dah takes the reader on a wild ride through the life of Montreal theatrical troupe. Tender yet buoyant, Dolly Dennis’ debut is an absorbing love letter to a time and a city that once was.

Billie Livingston

Loddy-Dah is a lively and, at times, heartbreaking social history of Montreal in the late 1960s. Dolly Dennis’ heroine is an outsider: a daughter of immigrants, a victim of violence, an artist, an obsessive, a sensualist. Loddy is unforgettable.

Todd Babiak, author, Come Barbarians

                          excerpt from the book:.    When Loddy moved into the three-storey walk-up near McGill University, she painted her basement apartment the colour of a boiled egg, and then for the hell of it, stencilled a wide China Red semi-circle across the living room wall, top to bottom, and called it the Rising Sun. Red. Her mother, Alma, hated red. She said it was the colour of communists and blood -- the colour of pain. So Loddy wore only red.

          

                                        ........Dolly will be at the Blue Metropolis Festival:

here is the link:       http://bluemetropolis.org/