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From the nationally bestselling author of The True Memoirs of Little K, a deeply felt and historically detailed novel of family, loss, and love, told by an irrepressible young girl--the daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl--growing up in golden-age Hollywood and Las Vegas in its early days. Esme Silver has always taken care of her charming ne'er-do-well father, Ike Silver, a small-time crook with dreams of making it big with Bugsy Siegel. Devoted to her daddy, Esme is often his date at the racetrack, where she amiably fetches the hot dogs while keeping an eye to the ground for any cast-off tickets that may be winners. In awe of her mother, Dina Wells, Esme is more than happy to be the foil who gets the beautiful Dina into meetings and screen tests with some of Hollywood's greats. When Ike gets an opportunity to move to Vegas--and, in what could at last be his big break, to help the man she knows as Benny open the Flamingo Hotel--life takes an unexpected turn for Esme. A stunner like her mother, the young girl catches the attention of Nate Stein, one of the Strip's most powerful men. Narrated by the twenty-year-old Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre-WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas--a golden age when Jewish gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in looks and behavior. Esme's voice--sharp, observant, and with a quiet, mordant wit--chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as her own painful reckoning with love and life. A coming-of-age story with a tinge of noir, and a tale that illuminates the promise and perils of the American dream and its dreamers, The Magnificent Esme Wells is immersive, moving, and compelling.

About the Author :
Adrienne Sharp is the critically acclaimed author of the story collection White Swan, Black Swan, a Barnes & Noble Discover Book and a national bestseller; and the novels The Sleeping Beauty, named one of Booklist's ten best first novels of 2005; and The True Memoirs of Little K, which was a finalist for the California Book Award and a Historical Novel Review Editors' Choice, and was translated into six languages. Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award-winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.

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Adrienne Sharp brilliantly recreates the tawdry magic of twin dream machines, studio-era Hollywood and early Las Vegas, in this tale of...the scrappy, precocious Esme Wells, her go-for-broke parents, and the toll these dreams took on their dreamers. -- "Janet Fitch, New York Times bestselling author " Esme is street-smart and tough but vulnerable...A memorable character in an unforgettable era. -- "Publishers Weekly" Esme's dramatic and irresistible story sparkles with psychological nuance, sumptuous detail, and vivid historical perceptions...Propulsive and profound. -- "Booklist (starred review)" Part family drama, part coming-of-age novel, Sharp's tale of the beginnings of Sin City has well-crafted prose with a colorful setting and unique characters. -- "RT Book Reviews (4 stars)" Sharp's narrative is a bold and gritty portrayal of unreachable dreams, anchored by its notable depiction of Esme. -- "Publishers Weekly" This glittering noirish tragedy, with its lushly imagined period landscape and subtle feminist trajectory, is both fun to read and sad to think about. -- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)" This lovely novel, alternately dark and funny, is a powerful examination of both the nature of love and the will to survive. -- "Ayelet Waldman, author of Love and Treasure" Violent and voluptuous, heartbreaking and profound, The Magnificent Esme Wells is about the losses we endure, and the love we keep betting on, despite the odds. Truly, a showstopper. -- "Caroline Leavitt, author of Pictures of You"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781538499610
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins
  • Height: 155 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 363 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1538499614
  • Publisher Date: 10 Apr 2018
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 168 mm


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