ADBG0-7 Anita Diamant - The Boston Girl.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Boston Girl: A Novel
Author: Anita Diamant
Read By: Linda Lavin
Copyright: 2014
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Source: Overdrive WMA
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 7
Total Duration: 7:39:16
Total MP3 Size: 210.46
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Ripped With: Sound Taxi
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Red Tent and Day
After Night, comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel about family
ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of young
Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early 20th 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
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 22-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
is a moving portrait of one woman's complicated life in 20th-century
America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their
places in a changing world.
Inc. All rights reserved.
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