My Little Blue Dress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Little Blue Dress write by Bruno Maddox. This book was released on 2002-03-26. My Little Blue Dress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Very funny . . . A pitch-perfect account of how it feels to be part of as culture that’s better at showing you what to wear than what to believe in . . . a real original.”—New York Magazine A gorgeous girl recalls her coming of age in her tiny, picturesque English village at the turn of the last century. After she opts out of a rural beauty pageant, her life—and its telling—begins to unravel. And it unravels into a multitude of extremely amusing, searingly beautiful strands that eventually lead her, and a troubled young man who befriends her, through the wall upholstered hellholes of modern Manhattan toward a heartrending and hugely satisfying climax that will almost literally blow your socks off. “Fun, full-throttle stuff, which rather miraculously dresses down the pernicious personal-history trend while remaining both giggly and moving in its own terms.”—Entertainment Weekly
Girl in a Blue Dress
Girl in a Blue Dress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Girl in a Blue Dress write by Gaynor Arnold. This book was released on 2009-07-14. Girl in a Blue Dress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dazzling debut novel brings the spirit of Catherine Dickens--the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens--to life in the form of Dorothea “Dodo” Gibson, a woman who is doomed to live in the shadow of her husband, Alfred, the most celebrated author in the Victorian world. Girl in a Blue Dress opens on the day of Alfred’s funeral. Dorothea is not among the throngs in attendance when The One and Only is laid to rest. Her mourning must take place within the walls of her modest apartment, a parting gift from Alfred as he ushered her out of their shared home and his life more than a decade earlier. Even her own children, save her outspoken daughter Kitty, are not there to offer her comfort--they were poisoned against her when Alfred publicly declared her an unfit wife and mother. Though she refuses to don the proper mourning attire, Dodo cannot bring herself to demonize her late husband, something that comes all too easily to Kitty. Instead, she reflects on their time together: their clandestine and passionate courtship, when he was a force of nature and she a willing follower; and the salad days of their marriage, before too many children sapped her vitality and his interest. She uncovers the frighteningly hypnotic power of the celebrity author she married. Now liberated from his hold on her, Dodo finds the courage to face her adult children, the sister who betrayed her, and the charming actress who claimed her husband’s love and left her heart aching. A sweeping tale of love and loss that was long-listed for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, Girl in a Blue Dress is both an intimate peek at the woman who was behind one of literature’s most esteemed men and a fascinating rumination on marriage that will resonate across centuries.
My Little Blue Dress B Special
My Little Blue Dress B Special - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Little Blue Dress B Special write by Bruno Maddox. This book was released on 2002-11. My Little Blue Dress B Special available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition)
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) write by Walter Mosley. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. “More than simply a detective novel…[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” (The New York Times).
Blue Dress Girl
Blue Dress Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Dress Girl write by E. V. Thompson. This book was released on 2012. Blue Dress Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a Chinese peasant girl is chosen as a concubine to Li Hung, she quickly learns the reality is far from honourable. She is sent away, but rescued from her Junk by a Royal Marine Second Lieutenant. When the young officer becomes involved in the Taiping Rebellion, their blossoming relationship looks doomed.
