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The Chaperone
de Laura Moriarty
- Usado
- Aceptable
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594487014
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487019
- Librería
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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Riverhead Hardcover, 2012. First edition. Hardback. Fine/fine. First edition/ printing. Fine, fresh unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 371 pp. Fiction. In 1922, a few years before she will become a famous film actress, 15 year-old Lousie Brooks leaves Witchita for a summer in New York City to enroll in the avant-garde Denishawn school of dance. The only way her parents will allow it is if she is accompanied by a chaperone, a local 36 year old named Cara Carlisle. Keeping tabs on the already stunningy beautiful Louise (already sporting her iconic black bob hairstyle) for the ensuing five weeks is at best exhausting and at worst impossible. Basis for the 2018 movie starring Elizabeth McGovern as Cara, Haley Lu Richardson as Louise, and with the screenplay written by Julian Fellows ("Downton Abbey" creator).
Sinopsis
The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever. For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive. Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s,’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.
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- Librería
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- E24475
- Título
- The Chaperone
- Autor
- Laura Moriarty
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 3
- Edición
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594487014
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487019
- Editorial
- Riverhead Hardcover
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2012
- Palabras clave
- movies. louise brooks, actresses, denishawn, new york city, silent film, silent movies,
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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Sobre el vendedor
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
Sobre The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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