The Chaperone
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594487019 (1594487014)
ASIN: 1594487014
Publish date: 2012-06-05
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages no: 371
Edition language: English
Title: The Chaperone Author: Laura Moriarty Publish Date: June 5, 2012 Publisher: Riverhead Books Format: Audiobook Page Count: 13 hours, 10 minutes Source: Library (via OverDrive) Date Read: May 2-6, 2020 Review A dull saga about people living in Wichita. I can't even shelve this as "historical f...
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 ...
I seriously loved this book - the story of a regular 1920s Kansas housewife who chaperones a teenaged Louise Brooks to New York, but for reasons of her own. Cora felt like a real woman and I always wanted to know more of her life and of how her experiences change her as the world around her changes,...
This book was narrated by Elizabeth McGovern so it helped my Downton Abbey withdrawal. The story is a fictionalized account of Louise Brooks, a real life movie star in the 1920's, when she was chaperoned from Wichita, Kansas to New York at age 15 by one of her mother's acquaintances. Cora Carlisle ...
I found this story of Cora, and her chaperoning of a young Louise Brooks (a future silent film star) to New York in 1922 impossible to put down. The author did an impressive job of capturing the lives of women in a time of great social upheaval in a very realistic way. So often in historical fiction...
9 years ago
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