The Resource Brass, Xhenet Aliu
Brass, Xhenet Aliu
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The item Brass, Xhenet Aliu represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wilmington Memorial Library.
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- Summary
- A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner in Waterbury, Connecticut, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams-- and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. When Elsie learns that she's pregnant, she wonders what he'll do about the wife he left behind. Seventeen years later, headstrong and independent Luljeta is stuck in Connecticut with her mother, Elsie--a fate she refuses to accept. Believing the key to her future is unlocking the secrets of the past, Lulu decides to find out what exactly her mother has been hiding about the father she never knew--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 443 pages
- Isbn
- 9781432850821
- Label
- Brass
- Title
- Brass
- Statement of responsibility
- Xhenet Aliu
- Subject
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- Connecticut
- Diners (Restaurants)
- Diners (Restaurants) -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- Identity (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Mothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Waitresses
- Waitresses -- Fiction
- Albanians
- Albanians -- Connecticut -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner in Waterbury, Connecticut, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams-- and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. When Elsie learns that she's pregnant, she wonders what he'll do about the wife he left behind. Seventeen years later, headstrong and independent Luljeta is stuck in Connecticut with her mother, Elsie--a fate she refuses to accept. Believing the key to her future is unlocking the secrets of the past, Lulu decides to find out what exactly her mother has been hiding about the father she never knew--
- Assigning source
- Adapted from dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Aliu, Xhenet
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3601.L3967
- LC item number
- B73 2018b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print peer picks
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Identity (Psychology)
- Mothers and daughters
- Albanians
- Waitresses
- Diners (Restaurants)
- Large type books
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- Albanians
- Diners (Restaurants)
- Identity (Psychology)
- Large type books
- Mothers and daughters
- Waitresses
- Connecticut
- Label
- Brass, Xhenet Aliu
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1019833948
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 443 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432850821
- Lccn
- 2017060817
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019833948
- Label
- Brass, Xhenet Aliu
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1019833948
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 443 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432850821
- Lccn
- 2017060817
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1019833948
Subject
- Connecticut
- Diners (Restaurants)
- Diners (Restaurants) -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Family Life
- FICTION / Literary
- Fiction
- Identity (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Mothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Waitresses
- Waitresses -- Fiction
- Albanians
- Albanians -- Connecticut -- Fiction
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