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Genre/Form: | Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cathleen Schine |
ISBN: | 9781472111296 147211129X |
OCLC Number: | 877673412 |
Description: | 1 volume ; 20 cm |
Responsibility: | Cathleen Schine. |
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The opening sentence of Cathleen Schine's engaging and moving novel offers a mini-masterclass in how to swiftly command a reader's attention ... Fin & Lady is a little gem. -- Erica Wagner * Financial Times * 'A bittersweet elegy for Greenwich Village in the 1960s' ... Like comic writers before her from Shakespeare to Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh, [Schine] skillfully plays with the conventions and the reader's expectations ... wise and wistful' * New York Times * 'Wonderfully funny ... Schine conveys the rapidly shifting mores of the '60s, as well as the slowly unfolding understanding of these appealingly vulnerable characters' * Washington Post * 'Fin & Lady is an enchanting novel about enchanting things - the romance of youth, the intoxicating possibilities of freedom - though this feeling of magic arises from tragic roots' * San Francisco Chronicle * 'Schine is a wonderful storyteller with a sensational ability to marry the comic with the bittersweet' * The Tribune Review * 'The achingly lovely Fin & Lady is a time machine back to 1960s New York City - with side trips to the Italian island of Capri' * Seattle Times * 'What if Holly Golightly had a trust fund instead of a 'candy store'? The gamine at the heart of Fin & Lady ... shares more than a few traits with Truman Capote's iconic heroine. Delightful ... charming' * Christian Science Monitor * Read more...