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The chaperone : [a novel]

Adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and her thirty-six-year-old chaperone have their lives changed on their visit to New York City in the summer of 1922.

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  • "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."
  • "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."
  • ""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"--"
  • "Een nette huisvrouw is in het New York van 1922 de chaperonne van een later wereldberoemd geworden filmster, terwijl ze zelf geheimen uit haar verleden wil onderzoeken."
  • "Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the 20th century and her own purpose in life."
  • "Adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and her thirty-six-year-old chaperone have their lives changed on their visit to New York City in the summer of 1922."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "On a summer's day in 1922, Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansaa, to New York, charged with the care of a stunningly beautiful young girl with a jet-black bob and wisdom way beyond her fifteen years. The girl is Louisa Brooks and, for her, New York offers a chance of stardom beneath the bright lights of Broadway. For Cora the trip offers the opportunity to discover the truth about her past. It will also offer her a chance at love."
  • "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."@en

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Novela biográfica"@es
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Materiales en español"@es
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Spanish language materials"@es
  • "Biographical fiction"@es
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en

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  • "Una acompañante en Nueva York : el destino de dos mujeres en los dorados años veinte"@es
  • "Kompanʹonka"
  • "The chaperone : [a novel]"@en
  • "The chaperone"
  • "The chaperone"@en
  • "The chaperone : a novel"
  • "Przyzwoitka"@pl
  • "Компаньонка"
  • "Una acompañante en Nueva York : en los vertiginosos años veinte, dos mujeres muy distintas encontrarán su camino"
  • "The Chaperone"@en
  • "Un été avec Louise"
  • "Una acompañante en Nueva York"@es

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