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The Ladies' Lending Library
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General FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9780061479076
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jan 6 2009
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
A deeply thoughtful, beautifully written novel. -- Washington Post Book World
A portrait of women caught between countries, cultures, and aspirations--a bittersweet tale, set in the 1960s, of mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers during one unforgettable summer
August, 1963: the year of the sensational release of Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The women of the Kalyna Beach cottage community, part of a group of first-generation Ukrainian Canadians, gather for gin and gossip, trading the current racy bestsellers among themselves as they seek a brief escape from the predictable rhythms of children and chores.
But dramatic change is coming this summer as innocence falters and the desire for change reaches a boiling point, threatening to disrupt the warm, sweet, heady days and the lives of parents and children, family and friends, forever.
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