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020 _a9781476786568
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049 _aNFGB
099 _aBergman
_aMegan
100 1 _aBergman, Megan Mayhew,
_eauthor.
_9199760
245 1 0 _aAlmost famous women :
_bstories /
_cMegan Mayhew Bergman.
250 _aFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bScribner,
_c2015.
300 _a236 pages :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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505 0 _aPretty, grown-together children -- Siege at Whale Cay -- Norma Millay's film noir period -- Romaine remains -- Hazel Eaton and the wall of death -- Autobiography of Allegra Byron -- Expression theory -- Saving Butterfly McQueen -- Who killed Dolly Wilde? -- High-grade bitch sits down for lunch -- Internees -- Lottery, redux -- Hell-diving women.
520 _aA collection of stories that explores the lives of talented, gutsy women throughout history. Now Megan Mayhew Bergman resurrects these women, lets them live in the reader's imagination, so we can explore their difficult choices. Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity--she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter of renown; a member of the first all-female, integrated swing band. We see Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra; Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly; "West With the Night" author Beryl Markham; Edna St. Vincent Millay's sister, Norma. These extraordinary stories travel the world, explore the past (and delve into the future), and portray fiercely independent women defined by their acts of bravery, creative impulses, and sometimes reckless decisions.
650 0 _aShort stories, American.
_924358
650 0 _aWomen
_vFiction.
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655 7 _aShort stories.
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_91945
942 _cBOOK
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997 _aBergman Megan
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