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Fin & Lady: A Novel - Cathleen Schine
Fin & Lady: A Novel
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From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story of New York in the ’60sIt’s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn’t seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope.... show more
From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story of New York in the ’60sIt’s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn’t seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging ’60s. He soon learns that Lady—giddy, careless, urgent, and obsessed with being free—is as much his responsibility as he is hers.     So begins Fin & Lady, the lively, spirited new novel by Cathleen Schine, the author of the bestselling The Three Weissmanns of Westport. Fin and Lady lead their lives against the background of the ’60s, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War—Lady pursued by ardent, dogged suitors, Fin determined to protect his impulsive sister from them and from herself.     From a writer The New York Times has praised as “sparkling, crisp, clever, deft, hilarious, and deeply affecting,” Fin & Lady is a comic, romantic love story: the story of a brother and sister who must form their own unconventional family in increasingly unconventional times.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780374154905 (0374154902)
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it
5.0 This one is a sleeper needing discovery!
A friend told me the best book on the civil war was Killer Angels so I decided to read it and I am glad. It is amazingly well written, well read and informative. This book could probably not have been written today. It is openly honest and not always politically correct. It is a magnificent portraya...
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4.0 Audiobook: FIN AND LADY by Cathleen Schine, read by Anne Twomey
I have some of my own (very vague) memories of 1960s New York City--I arrived there in the spring of 1964, just like Fin, although he's more than a decade older than I am; the novel's setting is an absolute sweet spot for me, and was definitely part of its appeal. The Hadleys' New York wasn't mine, ...
Book Connection
Book Connection rated it
I'm thinking 4 stars for this one. I liked it more and more as it continued. More to come.
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ellaminnowpea rated it
I say this all the time, but I am sucker for a good coming-of-age tale. Give a kid a difficult time that forces him or her to deal with things too quickly, set it in the recent past, and I readily present my heartstrings for you to tug at will. This book has all of those elements: By the time he's e...
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