Susanne Dunlap
Autore di The Musician's Daughter
Sull'Autore
Susanne Dunlap is the Director of Development for the Connecticut Opera.
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo: Ellen Augarten
Serie
Opere di Susanne Dunlap
The Courtesan's Daughter 2 copie
Opere correlate
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance (2007) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Dunlap, Susanne
- Data di nascita
- 19??-02-19
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Buffalo, New York, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Smith College
Yale University - Attività lavorative
- historical novelist
- Organizzazioni
- Readerville
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 949
- Popolarità
- #27,107
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 63
- ISBN
- 31
- Lingue
- 3
New York City in 1910 is not exactly hospitable for two poor females but Sylvie and Justine are making it work. Justine does piece work as a seamstress and works hard to allow Sylvie to go to school and get an education so she can advance out of this life. In her spare time Sylvie helps her mother but she longs to be an actress on the screen, not the teacher her mother wants her to be.
With the help of a young man she barely knows Sylvie gets her wish but it doesn’t fulfill her dreams, only brings her pain. As women have known for time immemorial, men hold the power and they will use it. Sylvie is now also keeping secrets from her mother.
Will she find that it is all worth it or is the world she was so desperate to enter not quite the storybook land she thought it would be? Do dreams come true? Especially for girls like Sylvie.
This was a very compelling read and one that kept me turning the pages from the beginning. I didn’t want to put it down and the only thing that made me was having to go to sleep. The book was finished over the course of two days and I wanted to find out how these two women fared.
It was certainly not an easy time in history and things were going to get worse before they got better. Sylvie’s story shows the strength of dreams and the force of a desire to do what one wants in the face of familial opposition. A story for any and all generations for sure. It made for a tale full of ups, downs, love, sorrow and ultimately triumph. I am happy I had the chance to read it.
I received a free copy in exhange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.… (altro)