The Magnificent Esme Wells |
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| Author:
| Sharp, Adrienne |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4328-5172-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2018 |
| Publisher: | Cengage Gale
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.99 |
Book Description:
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A National Bestselling AuthorNarrated by the twenty-year-old Esme, daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre-WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas -- a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable from each other. Esme's voice -- sharp, observant, with a quiet, mordant wit -- chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with love and...
More DescriptionA National Bestselling AuthorNarrated by the twenty-year-old Esme, daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre-WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas -- a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable from each other. Esme's voice -- sharp, observant, with a quiet, mordant wit -- chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with love and life, in a coming-of-age story with a tinge of noir.