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| #2502892 in Books | 2001-10-02 | 2001-10-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.69 x5.31l,.51 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The editor, author, or publisher were asleep|By gemini|I read another book by Alice Mattison and enjoyed everything about the book. The description of the times and the evolution of the lives of two ordinary men during the decades of the 20th century. I couldn't wait to read this one where I had hoped that the McCarthy era would be explored and its effect on a typical family in|From Publishers Weekly|Accomplished poet, novelist (Field of Stars) and short-story writer (Great Wit) Mattison adds to her laurels with this quietly suspenseful, psychologically penetrating novel, which is both a perceptive study of adolescence and a dramatic e
To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father's job as a teacher is threatened by anti-Communism, just as Frances begins to learn about her family's past. Why does Hilda refer to her "first pregnancy," as if Frances wasn't her only child? Whose baby shoes are hidden in Hilda's dresser drawer? Why is ther...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Hilda and Pearl: A Novel | Alice Mattison. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
