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My American follows the lives and loves of Amy Lee and Robert Vorst: from a chance childhood meeting to the comic, tragic and romantic trysts that follow. Amy, a baker's daughter, has dreams of becoming a writer, whilst Robert is destined to be a doctor. Later, embarking on a lecture tour in Depression-era America, she is reminded of her childhood friend and endeavours to find him.
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Review:
"Stella Gibbons's gift is very special" (Daily Express)
"Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama" (Guardian)
"Stella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh" (Independent)
"The Jane Austen of the 20th century" (Lynne Truss)
"Stella is stellar" (Sunday Herald)
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"Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama" (Guardian)
"Stella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh" (Independent)
"The Jane Austen of the 20th century" (Lynne Truss)
"Stella is stellar" (Sunday Herald)
'Stella Gibbons's gift is very special' - Daily Express
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- PublisherRemploy
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0706605497
- ISBN 13 9780706605495
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages444
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