The Resource The chaperone, Laura Moriarty
The chaperone, Laura Moriarty
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The item The chaperone, Laura Moriarty represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 371 pages
- Contents
-
- First published in the US: Riverhead Books.-Includes bibliographical references.-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. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime
- an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress
- but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams
- Isbn
- 9781594631436
- Label
- The chaperone
- Title
- The chaperone
- Statement of responsibility
- Laura Moriarty
- Subject
-
- Roman
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs | Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- trueNew York City
- trueSecrets
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueVacations
- 1898-1951
- Actors -- Fiction
- trueActors and actresses
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueBirthparents
- Birthparents -- Identification
- Brooks, Louise, 1906- Fiction
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985 -- Fiction
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985 -- Fiction
- trueChaperones
- FICTION -- Biographical
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION / Biographical
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- Fiction / Literary
- trueFifteen-year-old girls
- History
- trueIdentification
- Manners and customs
- Middle aged women -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History | 1898-1951 | Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10078886
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Moriarty, Laura
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3613.O75
- LC item number
- C47 2012
- Literary form
- fiction
- NLM call number
- Moriarty, L.
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Brooks, Louise
- Brooks, Louise
- Brooks, Louise
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Middle-aged women
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- Manners and customs
- Middle-aged women
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- New York (State)
- Roman
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Actors
- Middle aged women
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Biographical fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Biographical
- FICTION / Historical
- Biographical fiction
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Middle-aged women
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Brooks, Louise, 1906- Fiction
- Fiction / Literary
- Label
- The chaperone, Laura Moriarty
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- First published in the US: Riverhead Books.-Includes bibliographical references.-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. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime -- an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress -- but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594631436
- Lccn
- 2011052222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)761846626
- Label
- The chaperone, Laura Moriarty
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- First published in the US: Riverhead Books.-Includes bibliographical references.-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. This girl is hungry for stardom and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime -- an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress -- but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594631436
- Lccn
- 2011052222
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)761846626
Subject
- Roman
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs | Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- trueNew York City
- trueSecrets
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueVacations
- 1898-1951
- Actors -- Fiction
- trueActors and actresses
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueBirthparents
- Birthparents -- Identification
- Brooks, Louise, 1906- Fiction
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985 -- Fiction
- Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985 -- Fiction
- trueChaperones
- FICTION -- Biographical
- FICTION -- Historical
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION / Biographical
- FICTION / Historical
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- Fiction / Literary
- trueFifteen-year-old girls
- History
- trueIdentification
- Manners and customs
- Middle aged women -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History | 1898-1951 | Fiction
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