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Laura Moriarty (2) (1970–)

Autore di Le stelle brillano a New York

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5 opere 4,293 membri 284 recensioni 2 preferito

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Laura Moriarty was born in 1970 in Honolulu, HI. She attended the University of Kansas to earn her degree in social work and later her M.A. in Creative Writing. She went on to be awarded the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She soon became mostra altro a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kansas. It was then that she started her writing career. Her title's include: While I'm Falling, The Rest of Her Life, The Center of Everything, and The Chaperone. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Virginia Commonwealth University

Opere di Laura Moriarty

Le stelle brillano a New York (2012) 1,802 copie
The Center of Everything (2003) 1,286 copie
The Rest of Her Life (2007) 800 copie
While I'm Falling (2009) 335 copie
American Heart (2018) 70 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1970-12-24
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Istruzione
University of Kansas (MA|Creative Writing)
Attività lavorative
professor (Creative Writing)
novelist
Organizzazioni
University of Kansas

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This book was okay. It was mostly about a mother reflecting on her own past and her relationship with her own mother in the midsts of a tragedy caused by her daughter. It’s interesting to see how the main character’s own past and upbringing caused her to have such a strained relationship with her own daughter. I liked how not everything was neatly tied up at the end, but overall it wasn’t a book that constantly held my attention.
 
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jbrownleo | 54 altre recensioni | Mar 27, 2024 |
I really enjoyed. A bit of early Wichita history. KIRKUS REVIEWIn Kansas-native Moriarty?s fourth novel (While I?m Falling, 2009, etc.), she imagines the life of the actual Wichita matron who accompanied future silent film star Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 as a favor to Brooks' parents.Although Louise Brooks was a larger-than-life personality whose memoir LuLu in Hollywood is held in high critical esteem, she?s given short shrift by Moriarty, whose interest lies in Cora Carlisle. In 1922, 36-year-old Cora faces an empty nest as her twin sons prepare for college. Her lawyer husband, Alan, 12 years her senior, is a wonderful father and a good man, but their marriage is a sexless sham. She has grudgingly accepted and kept secret his (lifelong) homosexual love affair. So Alan is in no position to stop her when she announces that she is escorting Myra Brooks? 15-year-old daughter to New York City, where the girl has enrolled in dance school. He knows Cora?s real reason for going east. She lived in a Catholic orphanage in Manhattan until she was 7, then was sent to Kansas, where she was raised by a loving farm couple. Now she yearns to learn about her parentage. Louise, precociously sexual as well as beautiful and brainy (Schopenhauer is her favorite author), is a difficult, unlikable charge, but Cora finds time in New York to seek out information. Joseph, the janitor at the orphanage, helps Cora in her research while introducing her to the passion her marriage never offered. With Louise on the road to stardom, Cora returns to Wichita with Joseph, claiming he is her brother¥a charade Alan agrees to maintain. Cora seems to represent the history of women?s rights in the 20th century. An early suffragette, she applauds the end of prohibition and champions birth control and racial equality. She also gives Louise good advice during a rocky period in her career.Unlike the too-infrequently-seen Louise, the fictional characters seem less alive or important than the issues they represent.… (altro)
 
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bentstoker | 157 altre recensioni | Jan 26, 2024 |
We follow Evelyn from grade 4 thru high school as she learns some tough lessons about life and fulfillment of our dreams. Author?s first book.
 
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bentstoker | 45 altre recensioni | Jan 26, 2024 |
Quite a nice read about how a young woman's life takes a turn when she decides to act as a chaperone for a teenaged girl in New York City in the summer of 1922.

Offering glimpses at life for orphan children in NYC to Hollywood starlets and homosexuals in 1920s Kansas it is full of surprises but mostly it's a nice story about nice people.

I read most this one while home sick nursing a head cold and The Chaperone proved a perfect companion.
 
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hmonkeyreads | 157 altre recensioni | Jan 25, 2024 |

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Opere
5
Utenti
4,293
Popolarità
#5,849
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
284
ISBN
105
Lingue
5
Preferito da
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