Laura moriarty the chaperone
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Cora Carlisle is thirty-six in 1922, the summer that she chaperones a teenaged Louise Brooks throughout the duration of a prestigious summer dance program in New York, in Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone. When we first meet Cora she is married to a wealthy, handsome lawyer, and preparing to send their twin boys off to college. Cora is a bit at loose ends with her boys off working a farm for the summer, but she is surprised when Myra Brooks immediately accepts her offer to care for her daughter. Cora informs her husband of her stay in New York with Louise in no uncertain terms, and it is then that it becomes apparent that the marriage is strained, that Cora has secrets, and isn’t the meek little housewife she seems at first to be. Cora is searching for something that even she can’t define. This summer is her opportunity to investigate what she’s ignored for many years.
I have to admit I didn’t have much desire to read this novel. Not knowing anything about Louise Brooks, few things appealed to me less than reading about her and her summer chaperone. My book club is the reason I picked this up, from the very first pages, I was absorbed with The Chaperone and Cora. Cora’s tale of discovery is both suspenseful and engaging, and though I was equal parts frus
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The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Book Blurb:
The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.
For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course o•
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The Chaperoneby Laura Moriarty ~ 2012.This edition: Riverhead Books, 2012. Principal edition. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-59448-701-9.367 pages.
My rating: 6.5/10. Ready to react know, description only real surprise I gantry here was how inoffensive it was. I’d forfeit something a bit much graphic, overexert all description hype. Rendering several guide sex scenes are safely veiled hole allusion. A decently well-written addition endure the “women’s fiction” ridge, which, take as read it feels like accusatorial with hazy praise, practical how I’m feeling induce this subject right now.
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