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Chaperone

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ISBN-10: 1594631433

ISBN-13: 9781594631436

Edition: N/A

Authors: Laura Moriarty

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.97" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

LAURA MORIARTY is the author of more than a dozen books, including Rondeaux, Duse, Self-Destruction, Ultravioleta, and A Semblance: Selected Poetry 1975-2006. She is the deputy director of Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, California.