The Cape Ann : a novel / Faith Sullivan.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Three Rivers Pr., c2010.Edition: 1st Three Rivers Press edDescription: 346 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0307716953 (pbk.)
- 9780307716958 (pbk.)
- Compulsive gamblers -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Fiction
- Families -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Girls -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Husband and wife -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Minnesota -- Fiction
- Minnesota -- Fiction
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Sullivan Faith | Available | 33111007191303 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A disarmingly involving portrait of a family struggling to stay together through the Great Depression, The Cape Ann is an unforgettable story of life from a child's-eye view.
Lark Erhardt, the six-year-old narrator of The Cape Ann , and her fiercely independent mother dream of owning their own house; they have their hearts set on the Cape Ann, chosen from a house catalog. But when Lark's father's gambling threatens the down payment her mother has worked so hard to save, Lark's mother takes matters into her own indomitable hands.
"First published in the United States of America by Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988"--T.p. verso.
Includes "A reader's group guide."
Portrait of a family struggling quietly with a crisis. Willie is a compulsive gambler and disregards his wife Arlene's plea for a house. They live together in a small backroom of the depot where Willie works, and have one six-year-old daughter, Lark. Since Willie can't save any money, Arlene decides to start her own typing business. She and Lark dream of the day they can buy the Cape Ann house they've chosen from a house catalog. Willie's gambling threatens to drain Arlene's down payment money. Will Lark and her mother's dream ever come to fruition?