Amity Street Contributor(s): Florey, Kitty Burns (Author) |
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ISBN: 1887043292 ISBN-13: 9781887043298 Publisher: White River Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2016038460 |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 238 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Amity Street is the sequel to Kitty Burns Florey's 2012 novel The Writing Master, which took place in New Haven in 1856. Amity Street moves ahead 35 years: it is now 1892. Anna Felice, a wealthy former opera star, travels from Rome, Italy, to America--to Manhattan, to New Haven, finally to Amherst, Massachusetts--in search of the truth about her birth. Amity Street is the product of the author's long admiration for Victorian novels and her fascination with social history. The research for the book encompassed fashion, railroads, cooking, the training of hawks, the teaching of singing, the suffragist movement, and the early days of baseball. Most of all, the novel is deeply immersed in the history--the architecture, the shops, the colleges, the farms, the customs--of a small New England town not long before the turn of the century, and the end of an era. |
Contributor Bio(s): Florey, Kitty Burns: - Kitty Burns Florey is the author of twelve novels as well as many essays and short stories. She is best known for her two offbeat works of nonfiction, Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences and Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, and for the novels Souvenir of Cold Springs and Solos. Born in Syracuse, she has lived in Boston, Brooklyn, and New Haven. |