An elegant woman : a novel / Martha McPhee.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501179570
- ISBN: 1501179578
- ISBN: 9781501179587
- ISBN: 1501179586
- Physical Description: 405 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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Subject: | Sisters > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Families > Fiction. United States > History > 20th century > Fiction. United States > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Social problem fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Social problem fiction. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Allentown Public Library | MCPHEE, MARTHA (Text) | 34455006703553 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009308496 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | MCPHEE (Text) | 31901004433316 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |