Research Catalog
A star for Mrs. Blake
- Title
- A star for Mrs. Blake / April Smith.
- Author
- Smith, April, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-2291 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 329 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie, a wealthy Boston socialite ; Wilhelmina, a former tennis star in precarious mental health; and Cora Blake, a single mother and librarian from coastal Maine. In Paris, Cora meets a journalist whose drug habit helps him hide from his own war-time fate--facial wounds so grievous he's forced to wear a metal mask. This man will change Cora's life in wholly unexpected ways. And when the women finally travel to Verdun to visit the battlegrounds where their sons fought as well as the cemeteries where they are buried, shocking events -a death, a scandal, a secret revealed--will guarantee that Cora's life and those of her traveling companions will become inextricably intertwined, and only now will they be able to emerge from their grief and return home to their loved ones. This is a timeless story set against a footnote of history: little known but unforgettable.."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- War stories.
- Romance fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-2291
- ISBN
- 9780307958846
- 0307958841
- LCCN
- 2013023987
- OCLC
- 2013023987
- Author
- Smith, April, 1949-
- Title
- A star for Mrs. Blake / April Smith.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-2291