Hanging Off the Edge ---

<blockquote><I>The next morning in Alpena Michigan lying exhausted in bed in yet another strange (but oh so familiar) motel room I think about my life-our lives Bart's and mine. Touring from town to town-no health insurance no steady jobs no children no insurance of any kind against the dark forces in the world. </blockquote></I></p><p><I>Hanging Off the Edge</I> is an extraordinary journey into the mind and life of one of America's most creative women Priscilla McLean. McLean shares her precarious cliff-edge existence as a classical avant-garde troubadour and the day-by-day tour of the world through Europe Asia and Australia. She also writes of her touching story from growing up in a middle-class family fallen on hard times during World War II to her seemingly settled life as a college professor's wife. McLean's quotes from her extensive journals kept over a twenty-five-year span of time give an immediacy and poignancy to <I>Hanging Off the Edge</I>.</p><p>Mingled with these memories are original short poems philosophical thoughts on the artist's life and a whole section where McLean explores how over the span of thirty-five years thirteen special musical creations were born and placed before the world.</p>