The Bobby-Soxer, a Novel
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The Bobby-Soxer, a Novel
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Bobby-Soxer
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Sub title
a Novel
Summary
Hortense Calisher's revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman's coming of age Famous playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is the 1950s, and the new couple raises plenty of eyebrows-in particular, those of the narrator, an adolescent girl who is full of observations, but not judgments. At the center of this layered novel is the narrator's unconventional family and their odd fixation on Towle, which goes beyond his mere celebrity. The secrets of their past and the potential involvement of Towle in the family's lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn
Target audience
adult
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