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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: | Harrington, Laura |
| ISBN: | 9780330544177 0330544179 |
| OCLC Number: | 726823704 |
| Description: | p. cm. |
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"I put down this book and thought, there is no one like this girl, so fully has Harrington brought a new Alice to life. The great sorrow, of course, is that there are many Alice Blisses out there. The power of Harrington's richly delineated novel lies in putting a girl like Alice before us and asking us to remember how many beautiful, feisty others are staring down the long hall of adulthood with a father or a mother gone to war." <br> -Sarah Blake, bestselling author of "The Postmistress" <br> "Alice is a true heroine: intelligent, passionate, strong-minded. Watching her find her way is an absorbing pleasure." <br> -Margot Livesey, author of "The House on Fortune Street" <br> "This book may be the "Our Town" of the twenty-first century." <br> -Anne Roiphe, author of "Epilogue: A Memoir" <br> "Meet Alice Bliss, the heroine of Laura Harrington's gorgeous page-turner of a first novel. Like Scout in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Alice is destined to become a household Read more...
