e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Diamant, Anita.
Subjects
Jewish women -- Fiction.
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
Feminism -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Diamant, Anita.
by title:
The Boston girl : a ...
by call number:
FICTION DIA
Search the Web
Diamant, Anita.
Jewish women -- Fiction.
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
Feminism -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
MARC Display
The
Boston
girl
: a
novel
/ Anita Diamant.
by
Diamant, Anita.
Scribner, c2014.
Call #:
FICTION DIA
Subjects
Jewish women -- Fiction.
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
Feminism -- Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.
Boston
(Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781439199367 (2015 trade pbk.)
9781439199350 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Scribner fiction original hardcover."
Summary:
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable
novel
about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in
Boston
in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The
Boston
Girl
, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her "How did you get to be the woman you are today." She begins in 1915, the year she found her voice and made friends who would help shape the course of her life. From the one-room tenement apartment she shared with her parents and two sisters, to the library group for girls she joins at a neighborhood settlement house, to her first, disastrous love affair, Addie recalls her adventures with compassion for the naive
girl
she was and a wicked sense of humor. Written with the same attention to historical detail and emotional resonance that made Anita Diamant's previous novels bestsellers, The
Boston
Girl
is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Jewish fiction.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION DIA
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION DIA
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Central Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION DIA
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Sheet Harbour Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION DIA
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.