The Duchess of Angus : a novel / Margaret Brown Kilik ; edited and introduced by Jenny Davidson ; essays by Char Miller and Laura Hernández-Ehrisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilik, Margaret Brown, author.

Contributor:

Davidson, Jenny, editor, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

San Antonio (Tex.)--Fiction.

San Antonio (Tex.).

Kilik, Margaret Brown--Fiction.

Kilik, Margaret Brown.

Women--Texas--San Antonio--1943.

Bildungsromans.

Texas--San Antonio.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

261 pages : map, portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Antonio : Maverick Publishing/Trinity University Press, [2020]

Summary:

An autobiographical novel of 1940s San Antonio. It's 1943, World War II is in full swing, and San Antonio is flooded with GIs looking for a good time. Jane Davis, an uninitiated English grad, returns home and takes a room in her mother's flophouse, the Angus Hotel. Her days are spent as a department store shopgirl, and her nights are crowded with dances and a newfound sense of freedom. Surrounded by her fraying family and her beguiling friend Wade, Jane finds herself on a coming-of-age whirlwind through prefeminist America, where no one is immune to the ugly realities of race and gender. Delivered with a caustic wit, Jane's journey to adulthood will resonate with anyone who has ever come home again.

Contents:

The discovery, Margaret Brown Kilik's The Duchess of Angus / Jenny Davidson

The Duchess of Angus / Margaret Brown Kilik

Streetwise / Char Miller

Beyond Adobe Walls: Anglo Perceptions of the Social Realities of San Antonio's Mexican Quarter / Laura Hernández-Ehrisman.

Contains:

Container of : Miller, Char. Streetwise.

Container of : Hernández-Ehrisman, Laura, 1972- Beyond adobe walls.

ISBN:

1595349073

9781595349071

OCLC:

1111710185

Publisher Number:

99984107881