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  Title

  The chaperone

  Author

  Moriarty, Laura, 1970-  

  Publisher:

  Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Description:

  371 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9781594487019

  Item info:

  1 copy currently available - Varina Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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  The chaperone
  Moriarty, Laura, 1970-
  

  Personal Author:

  Moriarty, Laura, 1970-

  Title:

  The chaperone / Laura Moriarty.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012.

  Physical descrip:

  371 pages ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  First published in the US: Riverhead Books.-Includes bibliographical references.-On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime -- an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress -- but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams.

  Summary:

  "A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"-- Provided by publisher.

  Held by:

  VARINAAREA

  Personal subject:

  Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Motion picture actors and actresses--Fiction.

  Subject term:

  Middle-aged women--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.

  Genre index term:

  Biographical fiction. lcgft