![]() ![]() But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation. ![]() The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle's POETICS. ![]() Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist-she's already put Isidore to work on her biography. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. An absorbing, darkly comedic novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. In The First Tycoon, Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodore’s personal life. ![]() Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation-in fact, as T. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation’s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.įounder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also proved that her writing could sound like her predecessor's. The book begins well with gossip of how everyone has fared since the end of Austen's classic, and James did provide a surprise or two. James apologizes to the shade of Jane Austen who, in her final chapter of Mansfield Park stated, "Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery." Although Austen would have no truck with murder, I had the highest of hopes that this Grandmaster of Mystery would mine one of my all-time favorite books- Pride and Prejudice- and strike literary gold. Bennet of Longbourn had been fortunate in the disposal in marriage of four of their five daughters. First Line: It was generally agreed by the female residents of Meryton that Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane's mother to know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job-helping a famous rock star dry out. ![]() The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it's a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. ![]() A respectable job, Mary Jane's mother says. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she's glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. ![]() In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family's subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Nick Hornby Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this delightful (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl's coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for-who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer. InStyle I LOVED this novel.If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm. ![]() |