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Boston adventure / by Jean Stafford ; introduction by Rumaan Alam.

Van Pelt Library PS3569.T2 B6 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979, author.
Contributor:
Alam, Rumaan, writer of introduction.
Series:
New York Review Books classics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Young women--Fiction.
Young women.
Social classes.
Private secretaries.
Massachusetts.
Children of immigrants--Fiction.
Children of immigrants.
Private secretaries--Fiction.
Social classes--Massachusetts--Fiction.
Social isolation--Fiction.
Social isolation.
Boston (Mass.)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Boston (Mass.).
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.)--Fiction.
Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.).
Manners and customs.
Massachusetts--Boston.
Massachusetts--Boston--Beacon Hill.
Genre:
Fiction.
Novels.
Physical Description:
xi, 496 pages ; 21 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : New York Review Books, 2021.
Summary:
"Sonie Marburg gazes across the bay at Boston's gleaming State House and dreams of escaping form her childhood home, a cobbler's shack echoing with the recriminations of her beautiful Russian mother. All her hopes seem to come true when a summer visitor, Miss Pride, whisks her off to the shadowy libraries and gilded salons of Beacon Hill. But Sonie finds that she is doomed to remain forever an outsider, hovering on the fringes of a privileged world"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction / Rumaan Alam
Book one. Hotel Barstow
Book two. Pinckney Street.
Other Format:
Online version: Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979. Boston adventure
ISBN:
9781681375373
1681375370
OCLC:
1145082214

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