portada A Harsh and Private Beauty (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Kate Kelly

Editorial

Inanna Publications & Education

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.6x13.7x1.8 cm

Peso

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781771336611

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria
Novelas sobre la vida familiar

A Harsh and Private Beauty (en Inglés)

Kate Kelly (Autor) · Inanna Publications & Education · Tapa Blanda

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A Harsh and Private Beauty, is about the life and loves of Ruby Grace, now in her 89th year, on a train journey with her granddaughter back to Chicago, the city of her birth. When the book opens, Ruby is living in a retirement care home, but as a young woman, she was a jazz and blues singer, once trained for a career in opera. The novel traces Ruby's grandparent's immigration from Ireland to New York City, her father, Daniel Kenny's life in 1920s Chicago--the era of gangsters, nightclubs, rum-running and Prohibition--and Ruby's subsequent life in Montreal and Toronto. Headstrong and talented, Ruby struggled with the conventions of the times, was trapped in a marriage that forced her to give up her singing career, and in love with another man who shares her passion for music. Now, on the train headed back to a city she cannot remember, to a daughter she hardly knows, Ruby tries to look honestly at herself and the choices she has made, choices that affected not only her children, but her grandchildren. Ruby has a stroke on route, leaving the disconnected story of her life and love in the hands of her granddaughter, Lisa, who must reveal a secret to her father, Ruby's son, that her grandmother guarded all her life.