The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
In the bestselling tradition of Loving Frank and March comes a novel for anyone who loves Little Women. Millions of readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could Louisa May Alcott-who never had a romance-write so convincingly of love and heart-break without experiencing it herself?...
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In the bestselling tradition of Loving Frank and March comes a novel for anyone who loves Little Women. Millions of readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could Louisa May Alcott-who never had a romance-write so convincingly of love and heart-break without experiencing it herself? Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O'Connor McNees imagines a love affair that would threaten Louisa's writing career-and inspire the story of Jo and Laurie in Little Women. Stuck in small-town New Hampshire in 1855, Louisa finds herself torn between a love that takes her by surprise and her dream of independence as a writer in Boston. The choice she must make comes with a steep price that she will pay for the rest of her life.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780399156526
Publish date: 01-04-2010
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Historical Romance,
19th Century,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Fiction,
Historical
Like many young girls who read Little Women, I have had a lifelong obsession with Louisa May Alcott, and her main character, Jo, the writer and voracious reader who never could keep her foot out of her mouth. Of all the characters in literature I've read, I've identified with Jo the most, and picked...
"...Jo would have ceased to be Jo if she had agreed to marry Laurie."This book is a "what if" account of the supposed "lost summer" of author Louisa May Alcott. The story begins in 1855 as the Alcott family moves to Walpole, New Hampshire after a relative offers them a home for the summer (Louisa's ...
Little Women remains one of my favorite childhood novels. It is one of the first "big" books I remember reading as a little girl, and like millions of girls before and since, I fell in love with Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Because I much prefer to read fiction rather than research authors, I only know...
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