Innocence - Hardcover

Tessaro, Kathleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060522267 ISBN 13: 9780060522261

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2005

Synopsis

Attending a less-than-prestigious acting academy in the late 1980s, eighteen-year-old Evie Garlick finds herself enmeshed in the lives and theatrical ambitions of her fellow students and roommates, whom she remembers years later while working as a struggling drama teacher. By the author of Elegance. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"A tale as heartbreaking as it is heartwarming." -- Rocky Mountain News

"Funny and witty.devilishly fun to read." -- Romantic Times, four-star review

"Elegantly written and compelling." -- Entertainment Weekly

"A brilliant read with fashion advice thrown in!" -- New Woman

"Clever.Elegance makes the journey in style." -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"A deeply nuanced work." -- Pittsburgh Tribune

"Witty.proves that confidence never goes out of fashion." -- Glamour

A deeply nuanced work. --Pittsburgh Tribune

"Elegantly written and compelling."--Entertainment Weekly

"Funny and witty...devilishly fun to read."--Romantic Times, four-star review

From the Back Cover:

Some dreams never die.

It's 1986 and eighteen-year-old Evie dreams of being an actress. Leaving her hometown of Eden, Ohio, for the first time, she's heading to London to study drama. Together with fellow students Imogene (a born-again Laura Ashley poster child and frustrated virgin) and Robbie (a native New Yorker, budding bohemian, and very much not a virgin), Evie's flung into a thrilling new world -- a world illuminated by the glamorous, outrageous Robbie. Together, anything's possible.

But then life, and love, intervene.

And everything changes.

Fifteen years later, Evie's a single mother teaching drama to night students and living with the eccentric Bunny in her house of artistic renters. Robbie's gone now, killed in a car accident. And Evie's doing her best to forget the past, as well as the dreams they once both shared.

Then an old friendship comes back to haunt Evie.

Literally.

And suddenly everything is about to change again.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060522267
• ISBN 13: 9780060522261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305