The chosen and the beautiful
Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer, Asian, adopted, and treated as an exotic attrac...
| Main Author: | Vo, Nghi (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Tordotcom,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer, Asian, adopted, and treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice. |
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| Item Description: |
A Tom Doherty Associates book. |
| Physical Description: |
262 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781250820129 125082012X 9781250784780 1250784786 |
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