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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Thorndike Pr
Publication date
December 3, 2014
Pages
409
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781410475978
ISBN-10
1410475972
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
Original list price
$32.99
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
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Good Harbor | A Spool of Blue Thread | A Man Called Ove | Day After Night | The Last Days of Dogtown | The Red Tent | Day After Night | Good Harbor | The Last Days of Dogtown
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
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.
Editions
Hardcover
from Scribner (December 9, 2014)
9781439199350 | details & prices | 322 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $26.00
The price comparison is for this edition
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (December 3, 2014)
9781410475978 | details & prices | 409 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $32.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Large print edition from Large Print Pr (August 20, 2015)
9781594139185 | details & prices | 407 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $16.00
Reprint edition from Scribner (August 4, 2015)
9781439199367 | details & prices | 322 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $16.00
from Gardners Books (August 4, 2015)
9781471152375 | details & prices | 336 pages | List price $11.70
With D. Garland |
from Humanities Pr (July 1, 1983); titled "The Power to Punish: Contemporary Penality and Social Analysis"
9780391029019 | details & prices | List price $10.95
This edition also contains The Power to Punish: Contemporary Penality and Social Analysis
This edition also contains The Power to Punish: Contemporary Penality and Social Analysis
CD/Spoken Word
With Linda Lavin (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster (December 9, 2014)
9781442380363 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $29.99
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