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: Ambientada en la década de 1930, esta obra de ficción histórica sigue la vida de Josie Kassemier, una joven de catorce años del Kentucky rural con un talento excepcional para la costura. Mientras sueña con diseñar para las estrellas, Josie se ve inesperadamente envuelta en el peligroso mundo del Newport de la era de la Prohibición, un centro de contrabando y crimen organizado donde deberá aprender a navegar entre el glamour de los clubes nocturnos y su oscuro trasfondo.A través de sus diarios, una Josie de 94 años relata su transformación de una adolescente ingenua a una exitosa mujer de negocios en una época en la que las mujeres carecían de independencia financiera. La narrativa captura con maestría la dualidad entre la vida rural y la efervescencia urbana, revelando secretos guardados durante décadas en una historia que combina el suspense con el crecimiento personal. EAN: 9798990783379 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción|Historia Título: Hardly A Lady Autor: Frances Strickler Editorial: Rabbit House Press Idioma: en Páginas: 232 Formato: tapa blanda.…
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- Title
- Hardly A Lady
- Author
- Frances Strickler
- Publisher
- Rabbit House Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798990783379
Starting in the year 2010, a 94-year-old lady whom we see has led a spicy and sensual life, leads us back to her years as a young girl through perusing her journals. She starts with the wedding of her grandson who is the gateway to her memories of fine clothes, fancy parties, and a glamorous past. It is the year 1930. Josie Kassemier is a 14-year-old northern Kentucky farm girl. She has won praise and 4-H awards for her favorite activity-sewing. She dreams of designing and creating her unique fashions to become a designer for the stars. The 1930s was the era of bootleggers and gamblers as Prohibition was ending and organized crime was converging in Newport, Kentucky, as the center for dueling mob families. In an almost accidental encounter, Josie meets with a man who keeps the books for one of the restaurants/casinos/whorehouses which proliferate the area. She, who wants to sew for the stars finds herself, instead, involved with the mob. She comes under the protection of one of the longest-term and last remaining Madams in the area. Under her guidance and tutelage, Josie learns what it means to be a successful businesswoman when women could not have their bank accounts or businesses without the support and name of a husband or father. During the years from 1930-1940, we follow Josie as she looks back on her journals and chronicles the journey from a young naïve 14-year-old to her 24-year-old self. The book ends with a somewhat surprising, but not wholly unexpected conclusion, in which she follows her dreams.
"Who we are is sometimes something very different than who we've been. As a 94-year-old Josie enjoys her granddaughter's engagement party, she thinks about what people see, and the secrets she'll likely take to the grave as she recollects her life as a small-town girl learning to make it on her own in the bigger cities of Northern Kentucky. Set in the 1930s, "Hardly a Lady" is part historical fiction, part thriller, and all gripping. Frances Strickler captures the differences between two worlds in the same state - rural Kentucky and the burgeoning Newport - while illustrating Josie's life lessons that sometimes the glitter and glamor of nightclub life has a dark and dirty underside. " Liz Carey,
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