The Boston girl :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
322 pages ; 24 cm
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Scribner, 2014.
Summary
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today." She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and a wicked sense of humor. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world"--
Call Number
FICTION DIAMANT
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781439199350 9781439199367
The Boston girl :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
7 audio discs (480 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2014.
Summary
Addie Baum was born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America. Growing up in Boston, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine: a world of short skirts and new opportunities for women. From the one-room apartment she shared with her family, to the library group for girls she joins, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and a wicked sense of humor.
Electronic Access
Call Number
AUDIO DIAMANT
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781442380363
The Boston girl
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
409 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition
Large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2014.
Call Number
LP DIAMANT
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781410475978
Kindle e-reader [Wilmington]
Format:
Electronic Resources
System details note
Wireless reading device; U.S. power adapter voltage 100V-240V; micro-USB cable.
Physical Description
1 wireless reader with cover and power cable.
Call Number
KINDLE #2
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
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