The Resource A star for Mrs. Blake, April Smith
A star for Mrs. Blake, April Smith
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The item A star for Mrs. Blake, April Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
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- Meeting for the first time for a shared pilgrimage to France to visit the graves of their World War I soldier sons, an Irish maid, a chicken farmer's wife, a Boston socialite, a former tennis star, and a librarian meet a brutally scarred journalist before confronting a shocking secret
- 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.
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 329 pages
- Note
- "A novel" --Cover
- Label
- A star for Mrs. Blake
- Title
- A star for Mrs. Blake
- Statement of responsibility
- April Smith
- Title variation
- Star for Missus Blake
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Meeting for the first time for a shared pilgrimage to France to visit the graves of their World War I soldier sons, an Irish maid, a chicken farmer's wife, a Boston socialite, a former tennis star, and a librarian meet a brutally scarred journalist before confronting a shocking secret
- 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.
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, April
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mothers and sons
- World War, 1914-1918
- Cemeteries
- Parental grief
- United States
- Label
- A star for Mrs. Blake, April Smith
- Note
- "A novel" --Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 38023131
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 329 pages
- Media category
- unmediated
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 38023131
- (Sirsi) 38023131
- Label
- A star for Mrs. Blake, April Smith
- Note
- "A novel" --Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 38023131
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 329 pages
- Media category
- unmediated
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 38023131
- (Sirsi) 38023131
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