The Resource The magnificent Esme Wells, Adrienne Sharp
The magnificent Esme Wells, Adrienne Sharp
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- Summary
- "Set in golden age Hollywood and the burgeoning days of Las Vegas, The Magnificent Esme Wells is a dazzling, bittersweet story of family, love, and deception. We follow Esme--the irrepressible daughter of a Mafia gofer and a Busby Berkeley showgirl--as she comes of age amid racetracks and casinos, mobsters and starlets, on her path to becoming the first burlesque artist on the Las Vegas Strip. Young Esme Wells spends her days where no child should. She wanders the Hollywood Park racetrack trailing her gambling-obsessed father, and the MGM soundstages following her too-beautiful chorus-girl mother, both parents bit players in the big, jostling worlds of mobsters and movie moguls of late 1930s Los Angeles. Illiterate, unkempt, intelligent, and willful, Esme is as ambitious as her parents, and these three opportunists struggle to force the world to open up its fortunes to them. When her father moves to Las Vegas just after the war--to help Bugsy Siegel open his famous Flamingo Hotel--Esme accompanies him. And there, the daughter, now a stunner like her mother, catches the attention of one of the new Strip's most powerful men. Narrated by the twentysomething Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre-WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas--a golden age when gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in their scramble for power. Esme's voice--sharp, observant, with a quiet, mordant wit--chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as of her own painful reckoning with love and life. A coming-of-age story with a tinge of noir, The Magnificent Esme Wells portrays the promises and perils of the American dream and its dreamers."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 529 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781432851729
- Label
- The magnificent Esme Wells
- Title
- The magnificent Esme Wells
- Statement of responsibility
- Adrienne Sharp
- Subject
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- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Gangsters -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Large type books
- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Parent and child -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Set in golden age Hollywood and the burgeoning days of Las Vegas, The Magnificent Esme Wells is a dazzling, bittersweet story of family, love, and deception. We follow Esme--the irrepressible daughter of a Mafia gofer and a Busby Berkeley showgirl--as she comes of age amid racetracks and casinos, mobsters and starlets, on her path to becoming the first burlesque artist on the Las Vegas Strip. Young Esme Wells spends her days where no child should. She wanders the Hollywood Park racetrack trailing her gambling-obsessed father, and the MGM soundstages following her too-beautiful chorus-girl mother, both parents bit players in the big, jostling worlds of mobsters and movie moguls of late 1930s Los Angeles. Illiterate, unkempt, intelligent, and willful, Esme is as ambitious as her parents, and these three opportunists struggle to force the world to open up its fortunes to them. When her father moves to Las Vegas just after the war--to help Bugsy Siegel open his famous Flamingo Hotel--Esme accompanies him. And there, the daughter, now a stunner like her mother, catches the attention of one of the new Strip's most powerful men. Narrated by the twentysomething Esme, The Magnificent Esme Wells moves between pre-WWII Hollywood and postwar Las Vegas--a golden age when gangsters and movie moguls were often indistinguishable in their scramble for power. Esme's voice--sharp, observant, with a quiet, mordant wit--chronicles the rise and fall and further fall of her complicated parents, as well as of her own painful reckoning with love and life. A coming-of-age story with a tinge of noir, The Magnificent Esme Wells portrays the promises and perils of the American dream and its dreamers."--Dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sharp, Adrienne
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3569.H3432
- LC item number
- M34 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press Large print peer picks
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Parent and child
- Gangsters
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Las Vegas (Nev.)
- Large type books
- Label
- The magnificent Esme Wells, Adrienne Sharp
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1027733475
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 529 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432851729
- Lccn
- 2018008996
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1027733475
- Label
- The magnificent Esme Wells, Adrienne Sharp
- 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
- on1027733475
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 529 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432851729
- Lccn
- 2018008996
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1027733475
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Gangsters -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Large type books
- Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Parent and child -- Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
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