The Bobby-Soxer

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480439009

<DIV><b>Hortense Calisher&rsquo;s revelatory novel of celebrity, small-town values, and a young woman&rsquo;s coming of age</b></div><DIV></div><BR>Famous playwright Craig Towle has decided to return to his New Jersey hometown, a suburb of New York City. He arrives with his world-renowned reputation and a new wife who is half his age. It is the 1950s, and the new couple raises plenty of eyebrows&mdash;in particular, those of the narrator, an adolescent girl who is full of observations, but not judgments. At the center of this layered novel is the narrator&rsquo;s unconventional family and their odd fixation on Towle, which goes beyond his mere celebrity. The secrets of their past and the potential involvement of Towle in the family&rsquo;s lineage intertwine in a potentially devastating turn.&#160;