The dollhouse a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1524703168
- ISBN: 9781524703165
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Physical Description:
8 sound discs (9 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
sound recording - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2016]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Tavia Gilbert. |
Summary, etc.: | ""The Dollhouse. That's what we boys like to call it. The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you." Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and where a present-day journalist becomes consumed with uncovering a dark secret buried deep within the Barbizon's glitzy past. When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren't: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn't belong--a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she's introduced to an entirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the music is as addictive as the heroin that's used there, the startling sounds of bebop, and even the possibility of romance. Over half a century later, the Barbizon's gone condo and most of its long-ago guests are forgotten. But rumors of Darby's involvement in a deadly skirmish with a hotel maid back in 1952 haunt the halls of the building as surely as the melancholy music that floats from the elderly woman's rent-controlled apartment. It's a combination too intoxicating for journalist Rose Lewin, Darby's upstairs neighbor, to resist--not to mention the perfect distraction from her own imploding personal life. Yet as Rose's obsession deepens, the ethics of her investigation become increasingly murky, and neither woman will remain unchanged when the shocking truth is finally revealed"-- |
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Subject: | New York (N.Y.) Fiction Housekeepers Crimes against Fiction Older women Fiction Women journalists Fiction |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Audiobooks. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bethel Public Library | CDBOOK F DAVIS (Text) | 34030136862734 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | FIC DAVIS (Text) | 34010138635619 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Thompson Public Library | Davis (Text) | 34038139101919 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |