The women in black : a novel / Madeleine St John.
Record details
- ISBN: 1982134089 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781982134082 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781982134082
- ISBN: 1982134089
- Physical Description: 209 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2020.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in Great Britain in 1993 by André Deutsch. |
Summary, etc.: | "The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode's, are run off their feet selling ladies' cocktail dresses during the busy season. But in Sydney in the 1950s, there's always time to pursue other goals... Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode's for years. She's married to Frank, who eats a steak for dinner every night, watches a few minutes of TV, and then turns in, leaving Patty to her own thoughts. She wants a baby, but Frank is always too tired for that kind of thing. Sweet Fay, wants to settle down with a nice man, but somehow nice men don't see her as marriage material. The glamorous Magda runs the high-end gowns department. A Slovenian émigré who met her Hungarian husband in a refugee camp, Magda is clever and cultured. She finds the Australians to be unfashionable, and dreams of opening her own boutique one day. Lisa, a teenager awaiting the results of her final exams, takes a job at Goode's for the holidays. She wants to go to university and secretly dreams of being a poet, but her father objects to both notions. Magda takes Lisa under her wing, and by the time the last marked-down dress has been sold, all of their lives will be forever changed" -- Amazon.com |
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Genre: | Bildungsromans. Novels of manners. |
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- 11 of 11 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Union Free Public Library | FIC STJ (Text) | 34913148442423 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | FIC STJ (Text) | 33120152850381 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF STJ (Text) | 33260000550518 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | FIC ST. JOHN, MADELEINE (Text) | 37777123593709 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
John P. Webster Library - West Hartford | PR 9619.3 .S678 W65 2020 (Text) | 30401147759801 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC ST. JOHN, M (Text) | 36123132926377 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Oxford Public Library | FIC STJ (Text) | 33530148299891 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | FIC ST. JOHN (Text)
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Sherman Library | F STJ (Text) | 34060146328822 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC ST. JOHN, M (Text) | 34005127234275 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |