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An elegant woman : a novel / Martha McPhee.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.C3888 E44 2020
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPhee, Martha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- United States.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- United States--History--20th century--Fiction.
- United States--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 405 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2020.
- Summary:
- "On a winter day in 1910, at a train station in Ohio, two girls wait in the cold with their mother to begin a new life in the West. Tommy, the eldest, feels responsible for her sister, and in the years to come, as their mother campaigns for women's suffrage and teaches in one-room schoolhouses across Montana, she takes care of Katherine: trapping animals, begging, keeping house, cooking, while her sister goes to school. But as soon as Katherine graduates, Tommy makes a decision that will change the course of both of their lives--separating the two sisters forever, sending one to California and the other to New York. A profound meditation on memory, history, and legacy, ten years in the writing, An Elegant Woman follows one woman over the course of the 20th century, taking the reader from a drought-stricken farm in Montana to a yellow Victorian in Maine; from the halls of a psychiatric hospital in London to a wedding gown fitting at Bergdorf Goodman; from a house in small town Ohio to a family reunion at a sweltering New Jersey pig roast. Through betrayals, revelations, separations, and reunions, the story illuminates the complexities of class, race, feminism, and family, the sacrifices and compromises that go into making a life."-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McPhee, Martha. An elegant woman
- ISBN:
- 9781501179570
- 1501179578
- 9781501179587
- 1501179586
- OCLC:
- 1124337546
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