Season of Lillian Dawes (e-bog) af Mosby, Katherine
Mosby, Katherine (forfatter)

Season of Lillian Dawes e-bog

78,54 DKK (inkl. moms 98,18 DKK)
From the acclaimed writer whose first novel , Private Altars,, comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s.When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a punishment, this becomes an exhilarating invitation to a dazzling world, from smoking cigars at the Plaza Hotel to weekend house partie...
E-bog 78,54 DKK
Forfattere Mosby, Katherine (forfatter)
Udgivet 13 oktober 2009
Længde 288 sider
Genrer Fiction: general and literary
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780061846922
From the acclaimed writer whose first novel , Private Altars,, comes a story of driving lyrical force set in Manhattan in the 1950s.When he is expelled from boarding school, Gabriel Gibbs is sent to live with his older brother Spencer in New York. Rather than a punishment, this becomes an exhilarating invitation to a dazzling world, from smoking cigars at the Plaza Hotel to weekend house parties filled with tennis and cocktails. It is in this heady atmospherefrom white-gloved Park Avenue to literary Greenwich Villagethat Gabriel first glimpses the elusive Lillian Dawes. Free-spirited and mysterious, Lillian captures the imaginations of those in "e;all the best circles,"e; including both brothers. As their lives entwine, so begins the powerful and poignant unraveling of innocence. "e;There is, in most lives, a defining moment, a point dividing time into before and after...."e; Mosby beautifully traces the trajectory of consequence that will change all three lives. The Season of Lillian Dawes is a wondrous novel that chronicles a young man's first tour of the adult world.