The chosen and the beautiful /
"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tordotcom,
2022.
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| Edition: | First Tordotcom paperback edition. |
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| Summary: | "Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice"-- |
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| Item Description: | A Tom Doherty Associates book. This resource includes a book club kit with a reader's guide containing questions, discussion topics, and an additional reading list. |
| Physical Description: | 262 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781250820129 125082012X |