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The chaperone [LP]

Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the 20th century and her own purpose in life.

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Main Author: Moriarty, Laura, 1970-
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2012.
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Brooks, Louise, > 1906-1985 > Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Fiction.
Middle-aged women > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Large print books.
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Summary:Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the 20th century and her own purpose in life.
Physical Description:571 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781410448484
1410448487
Author Notes:Laura Moriarty was born in 1970 in Honolulu, HI. She attended the University of Kansas to earn her degree in social work and later her M.A. in Creative Writing. She went on to be awarded the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She soon became a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. It was then that she started her writing career. Her title's include: While I'm Falling, The Rest of Her Life, The Center of Everything, and The Chaperone.

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