The Resource The Boston girl : a novel, Anita Diamant
The Boston girl : a novel, Anita Diamant
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This item is available to borrow from 13 library branches.
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- Summary
- "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today." She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and a wicked sense of humor. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439199350
- Label
- The Boston girl : a novel
- Title
- The Boston girl
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Anita Diamant
- Subject
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- trueGender role
- trueHistorical fiction
- Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueMen/women relations
- trueFamily relationships
- true20th century -- 1901 -- 2000
- trueOctogenarians
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueFeminism
- Feminism -- Fiction
- trueReminiscing in old age
- trueBoston, Massachusetts
- trueFemale friendship
- trueHistorical fiction
- Jewish women -- Massachusetts | Boston -- Fiction
- trueJewish women
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today." She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive girl she was and a wicked sense of humor. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world"--
- Summary
- Recounting the story of her life to her granddaughter, octogenarian Addie describes how she was raised in early-twentieth-century America by Jewish immigrant parents in a teeming multicultural neighborhood
- Award
- Amelia Bloomer List, 2016
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10386311
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Diamant, Anita
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3554.I227
- LC item number
- B68 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Jewish women
- Feminism
- Boston (Mass.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Boston girl : a novel, Anita Diamant
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn884882199
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439199350
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2014019284
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884882199
- Label
- The Boston girl : a novel, Anita Diamant
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn884882199
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439199350
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2014019284
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884882199
Subject
- true20th century -- 1901 -- 2000
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- trueBoston, Massachusetts
- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFemale friendship
- trueFeminism
- Feminism -- Fiction
- trueGender role
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueJewish women
- Jewish women -- Massachusetts | Boston -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueOctogenarians
- trueReminiscing in old age
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